Professor of Shanghai University, Academic Leader and Doctoral Supervisor of the School of Cultural Heritage and Information Management of Shanghai University, Chairperson of the Asia-Pacific Alliance of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), Director of ICOM's Centre for Research and Communication, and Vice-President of the China Association of Museums (CAM).

CHANG Inkyung is the director of the Iron Museum in Korea and the Vice-President of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). She also serves as the Chairperson of the National Museum Foundation of Korea, a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Intangible Heritage and the President of the Korean Society of Museum Studies. Trained in arts, archaeology, and museum studies, she has promoted and advocated museums and the profession while running a museum for over 25 years.

Kenji Yoshida is Professor Emeritus and the former Director-General at the National Museum of Ethnology, specializing in museum anthropology.  He has been carrying out fieldwork on the expressive culture of Southern Africa, especially in Zambia. He has also been organizing various exhibitions on art and culture by networking art museums and cultural museums.  His major exhibitions and publications include DImages of Other Cultures (ed. with John Mack, exhibition catalogue) 1997, Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Africa (ed. with John Mack) 2008, and Portraits of Cultures: Networking Museology (Bunka no Shohzoh, in Japanese) 2013.

LIU Wentao is the director of World Expo Museum and also the Vice Chairman of the Exhibition Exchange Committee of the Chinese Museum Association. She served as deputy director of Shanghai Museum, deputy director of Nanjing Museum, assistant director of the Palace Museum (one-year posting). She has various significant roles in museum administration and cultural exchange, contributing to the development and promotion of museum exhibits and cultural heritage in China.

Deborah Tout-Smith is an Executive Board Member of ICOM (2022-25) and ex-officio Board Member of ICOM-ASPAC (2022-25). She is Senior Curator, Home & Community, in the History & Technology Department of Museums Victoria, Australia. She has curated major exhibitions including World War I: Love & Sorrow (2014), and curates home & community, military history, clothing & textiles and childhood collections.
Deborah sits on the Advisory Board of the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage at the University of Melbourne (2020-25) and the Board of the History Council of Victoria (2021- ).

Since 2021, Kérya SUN (CHAU SUN) has been elected President of the ICOM Cambodia Committee, created in 1997, after having been Secretary General.
Holder of a doctorate in geography from the Sorbonne University, she specializes in the management of cultural heritage sites.
She is a member of the Secretariat of the International Coordination Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic Site of Angkor, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Convinced that Asia is an open door to the museums of the future through its richness and cultural diversity of the past, she is an active member of ICOM ASPAC.
Since her return to Cambodia in 1995, she has continued to train young people in various fields of tourism, in different aspects of heritage, based on the management of the Angkor site and thanks to her involvement in ICOM, she had promoted the training of young professionals in the
different specialties offered by the museums.

MA Lin,the deputy director and doctoral supervisor of the Art Museum of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, the deputy director of China Art Museum, Shanghai, a member of the Chinese Artists Association, and a member of the Display Art Committee of the China Museum Association. Her curatorial projects include art history retrospectives, contemporary art exhibitions, and a series of exhibitions on dialogue between cultural relics and contemporary art. In recent years, she has also paid great attention to museums, art museums and community participation, curating the "Art Community" series of exhibitions and promoting the practice and theoretical research of "Community Art Museum".