- Mohamed Ait Kadi, General Council of Agricultural Development, Morocco
- Inthavy Akkharath, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Laos
- Sehounkpindo Gaston Akouehou, Ministry of Environment, Benin
- Daniel Barben, German Bioeconomy Council
- Michel Beckert, Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research, France
- John Bell, European Commission
- Joachim von Braun, German Bioeconomy Council
- Masum Burak, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, Turkey
- Olivier Dubois, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Ben Durham, BioInnovation, Department Science & Technology, South Africa
- Jan van Esch, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Netherlands
- Fabio Fava, University of Bologna
- Josef Glössl, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
- Alvhild Hedstein, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
- Jackie Hunter, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Great Britain
- Stefan Källman, Ministry for Rural Affairs, Sweden
- Nazlee Kamal, Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation
- Ashok Khosla, Development Alternatives, India
- Sirpa Kurppa, Natural Resources Institute, Finland
- Manuel Lainez, National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology, Spain
- Christine Lang, German Bioeconomy Council
- Mauricio Lopes, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
- Elspeth MacRae, Scion, New Zealand
- Murray McLaughlin, Sustainable Chemistry Alliance, Canada
- Geir Oddson, Nordic Council of Ministers
- Nicholas Ozor, African Technology Policy Studies Network, Kenya
- Jette Petersen, Danish AgriFish Agency
- James Philp, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Vladimir Popov, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Andrzej Siemaszko, National Contact Point EU Programmes
- Sigrún Elsa Smaradottir, Matís, Iceland
- Prum Somany, Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries, Cambodia
- Renu Swarup, Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council, India
- Sopida Tongsopit, National Science Technology and Innovation Policy Office, Thailand
- Eduardo Trigo, Grupo CEO, Argentina
- Chunyi Zhang, CAAS, China
- David Zilberman, University of California, Berkley/USA