Ishak V. Mastura is the Chairman and Managing Head of the Regional Board of Investments of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. He is on the advisory council for Mindanao of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the treasurer and board of trustee of the non-profit foundation and civic organization, ARMM Business Council. He was previously the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Autonomous Regional Government. He was also the longest serving Regional Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao from January 2002 to September 2008. He is a lawyer with a Master of Laws in Petroleum Law and Policy from the University of Dundee, U.K.

Zenonida F. Brosas is the Undersecretary and Deputy Director General of the National Security Council (NSC). Created under the Quirino administration, the NSC is the principal advisory body for the proper coordination and integration of plans and policies affecting national security. Zen served as head of the Government's Technical Working Group on Normalization as well as alternate panel member for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace table. She was also a member of the GPH delegation for the Ad Hoc Level Group for the conversations with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) since 2011. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics from UP Los Baños and a Masters’ and PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from UP Diliman.

Chetan Kumar is senior advisor with the Governance and Peacebuilding Pillar of the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). His current work focuses on the intersection of governance and peace-building, including questions of decentralization and autonomy; the building of national and local capacities, as part of development assistance, for the prevention and resolution of violent conflict or potentially violent tensions; and the constructive management of diversity or rapid change through national or local dialogue. He joined the United Nations in 1999. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and has authored several publications on issues pertaining to conflict prevention, peace-building, and governance.