- Professor Loretta Baldassar, Anthropology and Sociology, University of Western Australia.
- Professor Enzo Colombo, Professore Ordinario in Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi, Dipartimento di Scienze sociali e politiche, Università degli studi di Milano.
- Professor Joseph Lo Bianco, Chair, Language and Literacy Education, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne.
- Professor Joseph Pugliese, Research Director, Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University.
- Professor Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY and Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures.
- Professor Rita Wilson, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University; Academic Co-Director, Monash-Warwick Migration, Identity and Translation Network.