Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Director of the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University)
Yves Frenette (Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Migration, Circulations and Francophone Communities, Université Saint-Boniface, Manitoba)
Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Universität des Saarlandes)
Fiona Mc Laughlin (Director of the Department of Linguistics, University of Florida)
Lydie Moudileno (Marion Frances Chevalier, Professor of French and Professor of French and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California)
Luis Alberto Quevedo (Director of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Argentina, UNESCO)
Jeff Rider (Wesleyan University)