- Dr. Hosny El-Lakany, Director of the CIFOR Board of Trustees, Former Assistant Director-General of FAO/Head of the Forestry Department
- Dr. Rod Keenan, Director Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research Centre, Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Dr. Shyue-Cherng Liaw, Professor, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Dr. Ir. Hendrayanto, Professor and Former Dean, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia
- Dr. Awang Noor Bin Abd. Ghani, Professor and Former Dean, Faculty of Forestry, University Putra, Malaysia
