William Newton-Smith - Chair, Open Society Higher Education Support Advisory Board; Philosopher and formerly Fairfax Fellow in Philosophy at College, University of Oxford

Stewart Paperin - Executive Vice President of Open Society Institute, New York

Anne Lonsdale - Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge University and President, New Hall College, Cambridge University

Nancy Durham - journalist and reporter, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,London

Thomas Alexander - Senior Research Fellow, Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford; formerly, Director for Education, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD and Director of the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation.