| Name | Position |
| YAO Yunzhu | Senior Advisor at the China Association of Military Science |
| WANG Jisi | Founding Dean and Professor at the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University |
| YAN Xuetong | Professor of School of Social Sciences and Honorary Dean of the Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University |
| XUE Lan | Dean and Professor of Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University |
| LIU Taoxiong | Executive Deputy Director, Publicity Department of the CPC Committee, Tsinghua University |
| HUANG Renwei | Executive Dean and Distinguished Professor, Institute of Belt and Road & Global Governance, Fudan University |
| ZHANG Tuosheng | Research Fellow at the China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies |
| FANG Ning | Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences |
| WU Shicun | Founding President and Chair of the Academic Committee of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies |
| Wang Tianfu | Professor in the Department of Sociology and Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University |