Elke Koch-Weser Ammassari, Professor, Department of Statistics, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Chairperson of the Forum, IIS

Aoki Tamotsu，Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan

Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor, Universities of Leeds and Warsaw

Eliezer Ben-Rafael, President, International Institute of Sociology （IIS）

Edgar Borgatta, Professor, University of Washington

Craig Calhoun, Director, Social Science Research Council(SSRC), USA

Fernando Cardoso, former President, Federative Republic of Brazil

Karen Cook, Professor, Dean of the Social Sciences, University of Stanford, Secretary-General, IIS

Mattei Dogan, Senior Research Fellow, National Center of Scientific Research, France

Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Professor, Hebrew University of Israel

Fei Xiaotong, Professor, Peking University, former Vice-Chairman, People's Congress, China

Han Sang-jin, Professor, National University of Seoul

Alex Inkeles, Professor, Stanford University

Ambrose Y. C. King, Professor and President, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Rance P L. Lee, Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Lee Yih-Yuan, Professor, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)

Lei Jieqiong, Professor, Peking University, former Vice-Chairwoman, People's Congress, China

Nan Lin, Professor, Duke University

Robert Marsh, Professor, Brown University

Alberto Martinelli, former President, International Sociological Association (ISA)

Ashis Nandy, Porfessor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

T.K. Oommen, former President, International Sociological Association (ISA)

Sasaki Masamichi, former President, International Institute of Sociology (IIS)

Peter Saunders, Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia

Erwin Scheuch, Professor Emeritus, Koln University, Germany, former President, IIS

Grazyna Skapska, Professor, Department of Sociology, Jagiellonian University at Krakow (Poland), Vice-President, IIS

Piotr Sztompka, President, International Sociological Association (ISA), Professor, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Shiobara Tsutomu, President, Japanese Sociological Association

Goran Therborn, Director, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences

Alain Touraine, Professor, School of High Studies of Social Sciences of Paris

Immanuel Wallerstein, Professor, Yale University

Viadimir Yadov, Professor, Russian Academy of Sciences

Yang Kuoshu, Professor, Taiwan University, former Vice-President, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)