Hubert Loiseleur des Longchamps, Vice President International Relations
Peter Harling, Senior Analyst in charge of Iraq, International Crisis Group (ICG), and Associate Research Fellow, CRIS
Bernard Hourcade, Research Director at CNRS (Iranian Studies Research Group)
Nadine Picaudou, Professor at Université Paris I
Jean-François Legrain, Research Fellow at CNRS (Research and Study Group for the Mediterranean and Middle East), Lyon
Antoine Sfeir, Director of Les Cahiers de l'Orient and Chairman of the Centre d'Etudes et de Réflexions sur le Proche-Orient
Henri Laurens, Chair of Modern History of the Arab World at the Collège de France
Fatiha Dazi-Héni, Senior Lecturer at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP) and expert on the Gulf States for the French Defense Ministry's Strategic Affairs Delegation
François Burgat, Research Fellow at CNRS (Institute of Research and Studies on the Arab/Muslim World)
Gérard Chaliand, Expert in geopolitics
Abdelwahab Meddeb, Professor of Comparative Literature (Europe/Islam) at Université Paris X in Nanterre and producer of the program Cultures d'Islam on French radio station France Culture
Pierre Terzian, Economist and Director of the weekly energy newsletter Petrostrategies
Philippe Boisseau, President, Middle East, Exploration & Production
