Mr Henri Chen KeZhan
Among Singapore’s most established artists and a pioneer in contemporary Chinese painting, Chen has had numerous successful solo and group exhibitions since 1978 in Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States. In 1998, Chen founded the Visual Arts Fund, Singapore and was awarded a Patron of the Arts by the Ministry of Information and the Arts in 1999. One of the selected artists to represent Singapore in its first entry to the prestigious Venice Biennale 2001, Chen presently sits on the advisory board of the Mekong Art and Culture Project, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. Chen’s works are housed in both private and public collections all over the world, collected by embassies, museums, institutions, Asia Pacific leaders.

Dr Apinan Poshyananda
Born in 1956, Bangkok, Apinan Poshyananda received his BA and MA (Honors) in Fine Arts from Edinburgh University, Scotland and PhD in Art History from Cornell University, USA. Before he gave up practicing art, Poshyananda won three national awards at the National Exhibition of Art, Bangkok. He has taught art history at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok and was appointed full professor in 2003. He has been appointed the first Director-General, Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC), Ministry of Culture of Thailand, (2003-2006).

Mr Simon Israel
Simon Israel is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation. He has been an Executive Director of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, the Singapore-headquartered investment firm, since July 2006. Previously, Mr Israel spent 10 years as Chairman Asia Pacific of the Danone Group and as a member of that group’s Executive Committee. Prior to this, he worked across the Asia Pacific region in a 22-year career with Sara Lee Corporation. Mr Israel chairs the Singapore Tourism Board, is a director of Fraser and Neave, Limited, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd and Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. He also sits on the Business Advisory Board of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University.

Mr Kwok Kian Chow
Kwok Kian Chow is the founding Director of the Singapore Art Museum, a national museum under the National Heritage Board. Under his directorship, the Singapore Art Museum has developed the world's largest collection of Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art and has organized many landmark art exhibitions in Singapore and internationally. Author of Channels and Confluences: A History of Singapore Art (1996) and numerous essays and articles, Kwok has played a key role in helping to form the first association of art museums in Asia – Asian Art Museum Directors’ Forum (AAMDF). Kwok is also a board member of the ICOM International Committee of Modern Art Museums and Collections. Kwok Kian Chow is an active member of many public art, visual arts and art education boards and committees. Kwok's research interest is in 20th century art and aesthetics in Asia, in particular China and Southeast Asia.

Professor Xu Jiang
Artist and curator Xu Jiang is also currently the President of the China Academy of Art. Born in the Fujian Province in1955, Xu has been involved in numerous curatorial projects, such as Edges of the Earth-Asian Contemporary Painting Biennial (2003, Iran), Living in Time-29 Zeitgenossische Künstler aus China, (Berlin, 2001), as well as being a curator in Shanghai Biennial (2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006). In 2006, he also had a solo exhibition entitled, Vista: The Art of Xu Jiang at the Chinese Art Gallery in Beijing. He has held various official positions, including being the Vice-president of Chinese Artist Association and is a Member of the Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee of the National People’s Congress.

Cambodia
Dana Langlois – Executive Director, Java Arts

Dana Langlois first came to Phnom Penh, Cambodia in September 1998 as a volunteer. She arrived shortly after completing a BS degree in Photography with an emphasis in Art at Andrews University, MI, USA. Her one year volunteer work was focused on developing PR materials and assisting the PR director. In 2000 she opened Java Cafe & Gallery, and through it has developed close relations with local artists and an understanding of the challenges they are facing. Her work is to promote creativity and exchange and develop a thriving local art scene in Cambodia. She has curated over 60 exhibitions and launched the careers of several local artists.

China
Gao Shiming -- China Academy of Art, Guangzhou Triennale

Gao Shiming, Deputy Director of the Advanced School of Art and Humanities, China Academy of Art. His subject is visual culture research, contemporary art studies and curatorial practice.

He has participate in many exhibitions of academic standing, including the research project ‘The Migration of Asian Contemporary Art and Geo-politics’ 2002-2003; ‘Techniques of the Visible’ the 5th Shanghai Biennial 2004; ‘In the Depth of Reality: Contemporary Chinese Art’ and ‘Asian Time: New Media Art Exhibition’, 2005; ‘Micrology: Micro-politics in Chinese Contemporary Art’ and ‘The Yellow Box: Contemporary Art and Architecture in a Chinese Space’, 2006; Alchemy of Shadow: the 3rd Lianzhou International Photography Festival, 2007. He has published several books include Visual Thinking: Intangible Dialogue between Art and Phenomenology, 2002; Edges of the Earth: Migration of Contemporary Art and Geo-politics in Asia, 2003; Mask and Mirror: Visual Studies on the Real and Reality. Curatorial practice for Gao is a kind of critical-creative action. He believes in the contemporary significance of bringing together action and subjective knowledge. He also firmly believes in curatorial work as a form of ‘writing in practice’ within the dark room of history. Since 2002 his work has been guided by a special form of cultural thinking, which is: how to start afresh from intellectual discourse, depart from the habits of identity politics and contextual studies, and seek inspiration from the depth of reality, in order to stimulate creativity, and find a form of interventional representation for contemporary art and visual culture.

India
Rajeev Lochan -- Director, National Gallery of Modern Arts, New Delhi

Prof. Rajeev Lochan graduated from the prestigious Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda with a specialization in Creative Painting. He remained a UP Lalit Kala Akademi Cultural Scholar and was a National Scholar of the Ministry of Education and Culture. Recipient of the Japanese Government Research Scholarship between 1985-87 he also received the Japanese Government Research Fellowship in 1994. He was awarded the Senior Fellowship of the Department of Culture, Ministry of Human Resource Development and received the Sahitya Kala Parishad award in 1999 along with the National Akademi Award in 2000. Prof. Lochan has held several exhibitions of his works and has participated in innumerable group exhibitions both in the country and abroad. His works adorn in several private collections and museums both in India as well as the other parts of the world. He has extensively lectured at several important Universities and Forums both in India and Japan and has researched several aspects of art including addressing the World Culture Forum in Japan with a key note address in 2003. Having been a columnist for the Link magazine between 1984-85, his writings have been published in several important journals and have been presented in various seminars. He has been an academician and was on the Faculty of Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia along with five other important institutions like Mass Communication and Research Centre, CCRT, National Gallery of Modern Art etc. He is currently the Director of the National Gallery of Modern Art since 2001 and has curated several important exhibitions for the National Gallery of Modern Art. He continues to practice art and live with his Japanese Painter Wife Yuriko Lochan in New Delhi.

Laos
Bounthieng Siriphaphanh -- Director General of Fine Art Department, Ministry of Information and Culture

Dr. Bounthieng Siripaphanh is currently the Director General of Fine Art Department, Ministry of Information and Culture and Chairperson of Lao Fine Arts Association.

Malaysia
Anurendra Jegadeva -- Senior Curator, Galleri Petronas

Anurendra Jegadeva is an artist, writer and curator who has lived and worked in Australia and Malaysia. He is currently a senior curator at GALERI PETRONAS, Kuala Lumpur, a premier contemporary art space owned by the national petroleum company, Petronas.

Mongolia
Orna Uranchimeg-Tsultem -- Art historian & Curator, Union of Mongolian Artists and University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Orna Uranchimeg-Tsultem’s specialty is art of Mongolia. As an Assistant Professor at the Mongolian University of Arts and Culture, she has curated Mongolian exhibitions internationally (Tsukuba, Japan (1997), New York, NY (2000), Bonn, Germany (2001), among many others), and published on Mongolian modern art. From 2002 until present, she is the curator of the largest collection of Mongolian modern art at the Khan Bank in Mongolia. As a Ph.D. Candidate in History of Art at UC Berkeley, she is completing her dissertation "Ikh Khuree: Nomadic city of the Mongols," which concentrates on Mongolian art of the 17th-early 20th century.

New Zealand
Warren Feeney -- Director, Centre of Contemporary Art

Warren Feeney has been the Director of the COCA Gallery (Centre of Contemporary Art) since 1999, he completed a Masters degree in Art History at the University of Canterbury in 1997. He has taught art history in high schools and at tertiary level and been a guest lecturer at museums and galleries around New Zealand. He writes regularly on the arts in news papers and art journals and is currently completing his doctorate on the History of the CSA Gallery.

Papua New Guinea
Michael A. Mel -- Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic and Development) University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea

Michael Mel is from the Mogei people of the Hagen area in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Educated mostly in Papua New Guinea, he completed a Ph.D. in Indigenous Drama and Education in 1996 at the Flinders University of South Australia. He has taught and researched indigenous performance and culture at the University of Goroka and is a performance artist. In 2006 he was awarded a Prince Claus Award by the Dutch Royal Family and Government in recognition of his work as a teacher and performance artist in Culture and Development in indigenous communities. Presently is an Associate Professor in Indigenous Art and Education and is the Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic and Development) at the University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea.

Singapore
Lindy Poh (Independent curator)

Lindy Poh is an art curator, writer and consultant as well as practicising lawyer specialising in art & entertainment law. A former art museum curator(1996-2000), she currently manages an art business. Her current appointments include Artistic Director for ION, and art consultant for the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Supreme Court of Singapore.

Sri Lanka
Jagath Weerasinghe -- Artist & Chairman of Theertha International Artists Collective

Jagath Weerasinghe is an artist and an art historian. He is currently a professor at the the Postgraduate Institute of Archeology, Colombo and he is also the Chairperson of Theertha International Artists Collective, Colombo.

Thailand
Somporn Rodboon -- Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University

Somporn Rodboon is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University. She has curated exhibitions both national and international levels. She is also an author of books on senior Thai artists and has written numerous articles on Thai contemporary art and artists for art texts, magazines and catalogue essays for local and abroad. Further, she has been supporting young Thai artists both male and female for their artistic activities and exhibitions.

Vietnam
Natalia Kraevskaia, PhD, an independent curator and art critic, Director of Salon Natasha

Natalia (Natasha) Kraevskaia, Ph.D. in Philology, is an independent curator specializing in Vietnamese contemporary art. In 1990 she established the first private art space in Hanoi together with Vu Dan Tan. Since then she has organized and curated numerous exhibitions in Vietnam, Australia, Canada, Germany, Finland, Macao and Russia. She is author of the book Nostalgia towards Exploration. Essays on Contemporary Art in Vietnam (2005), as well as a contributor to exhibition catalogues and international art magazines.
She is also associate professor at The Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow (Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies, the Center of Comparative Studies of Eastern and Western Cultures) and at Hanoi National University.