Jean Marie Charpentier, architect, France. Jean Marie Charpentier is past President of the Ordre des Architectes de Paris, creator of the Shanghai Opera and architect of major projects in France and in China; Jean Marie Charpentier is Honorary President of Wapic.

Takefumi Kubota, Senior Executive Vice President, NTT Marine, Japan. Takefumi Kubota has been President for the French branch of C.Itoh, a leading Japanese trading company renamed Itochu.

Edward Patrick Flaherty, US attorney. Based in Switzerland, Edward Patrick Flaherty has been admitted to practice law before the Supreme Juridical Court, and all its inferior courts of the state of Massachusetts USA. Senior partner of Schwab Flaherty and associates in Geneva, he concentrates his practice on international commercial transactions, asset protection, offshore trust company law and the law of international civil service.

Christian Lasserre, RICS, Chairman of A+Architecture, Brussels. Lawyer and economist, fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveillors, Christian Lasserre teaches Urban Economics at the High School of Architecture of Brussels.

Nicole Paquin Desbiolles is founder President of WAPIC. She was a journalist and collaborated in several news before joining the group Havas in Paris as Public Relation Vice President. She was also President and administrator of its advertising company and has served as independent advisor to international customers for real estate investment.