Arie M. Oostlander, Member of the European Parliament

Franz-Lothar Altman, Head, Southeast Europe Department, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin

Giovanni Sartori, The Albert Schweizer Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University , New York

James Fishkin, Professor, Darrel K. Royal Regents Chair in Government,

Law and Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin

John Roper, Fellow, Royal Institute for International Affairs, London

Juan Linz, Professor, Department of Political Studies, Yale University

Margot Light, Professor, Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Michael Branch, Professor, Former Director, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London

Michael Katz, Dean of Languages and International Studies at Middlebury College , Vermont, USA

Pasquale Ferraro, Former Deputy Director General, International Development Law Institute, Rome

William Meyer, Esq., Hutchinson, Black and Cook; Central and East European Law Initiative, American Bar Association