- Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, , McGill Centre for Developing-Area Studies
- Mr. Richard Pound, , Chancellor, McGill University
- Hon. Michael Chong, , MP, Wellington-Halton Hills
- Her Excellency Judith Mbula Bahemuka,, Kenya High Commissioner to Canada
- Shellemiah O. Keya, Advisor to Director General, Africa Rice Center (WARDA)
- Ato Tefera Derbew, Head, Amhara Regional State Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Development Ethiopia
- Carole Robert, President, Biotechnology for Sustainable Development in Africa Foundation (BDA)
- Gaétan Lussier, Chairman of the Board, Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute
- Ted Boyle, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Douglas Hedley, Executive Director, Canadian Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine
- John Scott, Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers
- Jim Cornelius, Canadian Foodgrains Bank
- Sheri Arnott, CHF-Partners in Rural Development, on behalf of the Canadian Food Security Policy Group
- Aly Shady, Canadian international Development Agency (CIDA)
- Sandra Polaski, Senior Associate and Director, Trade, Equity and Development Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Neil Conklin, President, Farm Foundation
- Daniel Gustafson, Director, Liaison Office for North America, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
- Mohamed Ait Kadi, President, General Council of Agricultural Development, Rabat, Morocco
- Al Mussell, George Morris Centre
- M. Gopalakrishnan, Secretary General, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)
- Caroline Pestieau, International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
- Jack Wilkinson, International Federation of Agricultural Producers
- Mohammed Mukhier, Head, Disaster Policy and Preparedness Department, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent, Switzerland
- Maximo Torero, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
- Kanayo F. Nwanze, Vice-President, International Fund for Agricultural Development
- François Dagenais, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
- Robert Zeigler, Director General, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
- Philip Oxhorn, Director, McGill Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill University
- Nicholas Kasirer, Dean, Faculty of Law, McGill University
- Zhu Jing, Deputy Director, Department of Economics and Finance, College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University
- Ken Ash, Deputy Director, Trade and Agriculture, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Gordon Bacon, CEO, Pulse Canada
- Hon. Robert Persaud, Minister of Agriculture, Republic of Guyana
- Galina Stulina, Soils and Agronomy Specialist, SANRI and Scientific Information Center of the Interstate Commission Water Coordination, Uzbekistan
- Nicolas Carpentier, Sun Youth Organization
- K. Thangavel, Professor, Food Process Engineering, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
- Daniel Uza, Vice-Chancellor, University of Agriculture Makurdi, Nigeria
- Jean-Paul Laforest, Doyen - Dean, Faculté des sciences de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation, Université Laval
- Tim Ogilvie, Dean, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island
- Derek Byerlee, World Bank
- Henk-Jan Brinkman, Senior Adviser for Economic Policy, World Food Programme
- Experts from: Canada, China, Egypt, Europe, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Kenya, Morocco, United States
