| Jacques Batut | Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France |
| Felix Dakora | Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa |
| Georgina Hernandez | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico |
| Dennis Dean | Virginia Tech, USA |
| Allan Downie | John Innes Centre, UK |
| Jean-Jacques Drevon | Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France |
| Enrique Flores | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain |
| Peter Gresshoff | The University of Queensland, Australia |
| Hauke Hennecke | ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
| Kiwamu Minamisawa | Tohoku University, Japan |
| Stefan Nordlund | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Martin Parniske | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany |
| Katharina Pawlowski | Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Fabio Pedrosa | Fundação Araucária, Brasil |
| Philip Poole | Oxford University, UK |
| Luis Rubio | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain |
| Janet Sprent | University of Dundee, Scotland |
| Peter Young | The University of York, UK |