• Dr. Naoko Ishii: professor, executive vice president, and inaugurating Director of the Centre for Global Commons at the University of Tokyo and former Deputy Vice Minister of Finance of Japan
  • David J. Semaya: Executive Chairman and Representative Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co. Ltd., Tokyo, and former Executive Chairman of Nikko Asset Management in London and Tokyo
  • Jesper Koll: Senior Advisor to fund management group WisdomTree and formerly Chief Strategist and Head of Research for US investment banks J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch. He is one of few foreign members of the Keizai Doyukai, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives