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Professor Sir Michael Howard, IISS President Emeritus
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His Excellency Jaswant Singh, Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha (House of State), New Delhi, India
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Dr John Hillen, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
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Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Vice-Principal (Research) and Professor of War Studies, King’s College, London
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Dr Michael Schäfer, Political Director, German Federal Foreign Office
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Vice Admiral Madanjit Singh, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command of the Indian Navy
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Dr Nikolay Spassky, Deputy Director, Security Council, Russian Federation
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Ambassador Sung-joo Han, Professor and Director of the Ilmin International Relations Institute, Korea University, Seoul
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Dr Rohan Gunaratna, Head, International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Singapore
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Dr Mamoun Fandy, IISS Senior Fellow for Gulf Security and the Middle East
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Dr Patrick M. Cronin, IISS Director of Studies
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Dr Mitchell B. Reiss, Vice Provost for International Affairs, The College of William and Mary
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Dr Liru Cui, President, China Institute for Contemporary International Relations, Beijing
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H.E. Sheik Dr Ahmed al-Tayyib, Rector, Al-Azar University, Cairo, Egypt
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H.E. Dr Marwan Muasher, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Former Foreign Minister, Amman, Jordan
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Dr Farish Ahmad-Noor, Institute for Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia
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Ambassador Yukio Satoh, President, Japan Institute for International Affairs, Tokyo
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Professor Eliot A. Cohen, Director, Center for Strategic Studies, The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
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Professor François Heisbourg, Chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, (Special Adivsor, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique, Paris)
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General the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, former Chief of the British Defence Staff
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Dr David Kilcullen, Australian Army and Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism
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Professor Bassam Tibi, University of Göttingen, Germany
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Admiral Dennis C. Blair, US Navy (Retired), President, Institute for Defense Analyses
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Sir Michael Quinlan, Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence and IISS Consulting Senior Fellow
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Dr Shahram Chubin, Director of Studies, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
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Lieutenant General V.G. Pantankar (Retired), Former Corps Commander (15 Corps), Indian Army
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The Honorable Walter B. Slocombe, Former Senior Advisor for Security Sector and Defence Affairs, Coalition, Provisional Authority, Iraq, and former U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
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Dr Alexei Arbatov, Scholar-in-Residence, Carnegie Moscow Center
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Dr Narushige Michishita, Senior Research Fellow, National Institute for Defence Studies, Tokyo
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Dr Ariel Levite, Deputy Director General (Policy), Israeli Atomic Energy Commission
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Mr Mark Fitzpatrick, Director, IISS Non-Proliferation Programme and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Non-Proliferation, US State Department
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Dr John Chipman, Director-General and Chief Executive of the IISS
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Sir Hilary Synnott, Former British High Commissioner to Pakistan and IISS Consulting Senior Fellow
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Mr Gareth Evans, President and CEO, International Crisis Group, Belgium
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Mr Yukio Okamoto, former Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for foreign affairs, President and Founder Okamoto Associates Inc.
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Professor Andrew Natsios, Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and Advisor on International Development, Georgetown University
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Professor Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milan
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Dr Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister of Sweden, former UN Secretary General Special Envoy for the Balkans, and currently Chairman, Kreab Group, Stockholm
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Dr Rita Hauser, President, The Hauser Foundation and Member of the U.S. President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the President's Intelligence Oversight Board
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Professor Sir Adam Roberts, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
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Lieutenant General (Retd) VR Raghavan, Director, Delhi Policy Group and Member, IISS Council
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Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Army, Commander, Combined Forces Command, Afghanistan
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Ambassador Zukang Sha,Permanent Representative to Disarmament Conference, People’s Republic of China
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Mr Neil Crompton,Head of Iran Coordination Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Dr Newton Howard, Center for Advanced Defense Studies
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General (Retd) Siphiwe ‘Ghebuzza’ Nyanda,Former Commander, South African National Defence Force
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Admiral (Retd) Alexander Tavra,Former Secretary General of the Chilean Navy
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Vice Admiral Patrick M. Walsh, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, Commander, U.S. 5th Fleet, and Commander, Combined Maritime Forces
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Rear Admiral Shahid Iqbal, Pakistan Navy and current Commander CTF-150
- Dr Jiemian Yang, Vice President, Shanghai Institute for International Relations
