- Alexander Kolesnikov, Doctor of History, Professor, St Petersburg Regional Information and Analysis Centre, Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, St Petersburg, Russia.
- Aziz Mohammad Arianfar, Director, Center for Afghanistan Studies and Research, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany).
- Barnett Rubin, Ph D, Senior Research Scientist, Associate Director, Center on International Cooperation, New York, NY, USA.
- Benjamin Hopkins, Ph D, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA.
- C. Ryan Perkins, Ph D, South Asian Studies Librarian, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
- Ekaterina Pischurnikova, Department of Iranian Philology, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia.
- Florence Shahabi, PhD candidate in South Asia Studies, SOAS, University of London, London, UK.
- Genriko Kharatishvili, Ph D, Department of Middle Eastern History, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia.
- Hans-Ulrich Seidt, Dr, Ambassador, Inspector General, German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany.
- Katja Manuela Mielke, Dr. Phil., Senior Researcher, Bonn International Center for Conversion, Peace and Conflict Research Institute, Bonn, Germany.
- Khalil Ahmad Arab, MA in Iranian Studies, Ph D Candidate, Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian Universty, Cracow, Poland.
- Konstantin Vasiltsov, Ph D, Research Fellow, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia.
- Magnus Marsden, Ph D, Professor of Social Anthropology; Director of the Sussex Asia Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
- Marianna S. Bakonina, Ph D, independent scholar, freelance journalist, St Petersburg, Russia.
- Mateusz M. Kłagisz, Ph D, Lecturer, Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian Universty, Cracow, Poland.
- Matteo De Chiara, Maître de Conférences, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), Paris, France.
- Mikhail Pelevin, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department of Iranian Philology, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia.
- Muhammad Ali, Ph D Scholar, Department of Pakistani Languages, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad; Government AKL Postgraduate College Matta, Swat KP, Pakistan.
- Nikolay N. Dyakov, Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Department of Middle Eastern History, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia.
- Nile Green, Ph D, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.
- Olga Yastrebova, Ph D, Keeper of Oriental Collections, Manuscript Department, National Library of Russia; Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia.
- Olli Ruohomäki, Ph D, Visiting Senior Fellow, The Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland.
- Paul Bucherer-Dietschi, Director, Swiss Afghanistan Institute, Bubendorf, Switzerland.
- Pavel B. Lurje, Ph D, Keeper of Central Asian, Caucasian and Crimean Collections, Oriental Department, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia.
- Robert D. Crews, Ph D, Associate Professor, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
- Robert Nichols, Ph D, Professor of History, Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey, USA.
- Sana Haroon, Ph D, Associate Professor in History and Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts Undergraduate Program Director, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.
- Sergei Andreyev, D Phil (Oxon), independent scholar, St Petersburg, Russia.
- Sergey Grigorev, Ph D, Department of Middle Eastern History, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia.
- Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Ph D, Professor of History (Middle East and South Asia), James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA.
- Shervonsho Alamshoev, PhD candidate, Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia; Khorog State University, Khorog, Tajikistan.
- Vahe S. Boyajian, Ph D, Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia.
- Vasily S. Khristoforov, Doctor of Law, Professor, Correspondent Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lt General (reserve), Russian State University for the Humanities; Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
- Vladimir N. Plastun, Doctor of History, Professor, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia.
- Vladimir S. Boyko, Doctor of History, Altai State Pedagogical University/ Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia.
- Warwick Ball, independent scholar, Edinburgh, UK (formerly British Institute of Afghan Studies, Kabul, Afghanistan).
- Youli A. Ioannesyan, Ph D, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia.
- Zarine Dzhandosova, Ph D, Department of Central Asia and Caucasus, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia.