- ▬ Mohammad Amin (D-Wave Systems, CA)
- ▬ Plamen P. Angelov (Lancaster University, UK)
- ▬ Thomas Bäck (Leiden University, NL)
- ▬ Peter Bentley (University College London, UK)
- ▬ Mauro Birattari (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE)
- ▬ Christian Blum (Higher Scientific Research Council, ES)
- ▬ Shyi-Ming Chen (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, TW)
- ▬ Carlos A. Coello Coello (CINVESTAV – National Polytechnic Institute, MX)
- ▬ Claude Crépeau (McGill University, CA)
- ▬ Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE)
- ▬ Matthias Ehrgott (Lancaster University, UK)
- ▬ Andries Engelbrecht (Stellenbosch University, ZA)
- ▬ Juan José García-Ripoll (Higher Scientific Research Council, ES)
- ▬ Deborah M. Gordon (Stanford University, US)
- ▬ Jin-Kao Hao (University of Angers, FR)
- ▬ Wei-Chiang Samuelson Hong (Jiangsu Normal University, CN)
- ▬ Thomas R. Ioerger (Texas A&M University, US)
- ▬ Etienne E. Kerre (Ghent University, BE)
- ▬ Chung-Sheng Li (Accenture, IE)
- ▬ Gui Lu Long (Tsinghua University, CN)
- ▬ Chao-Yang Lu (University of Science and Technology of China, CN)
- ▬ Pabitra Kumar Maji (Bidhan Chandra College, IN)
- ▬ Vittorio Maniezzo (University of Bologna, IT
- ▬ Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
- ▬ Luis Martínez López (University of Jaén, ES)
- ▬ Serge Massar (Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE)
- ▬ Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, SI)
- ▬ Hossein Nezamabadi-Pour (Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, IR)
- ▬ Norman Packard (Daptics, US)
- ▬ Sidhartha Panda (Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, IN)
- ▬ Elpiniki Papageorgiou (University of Applied Sciences of Thessaly, GR)
- ▬ Geoffrey Pond (Royal Military College of Canada, CA)
- ▬ Kai (Alex) Qin (Swinburne University of Technology, AU)
- ▬ Celso C. Ribeiro (Fluminense Federal University, BR)
- ▬ José Santos-Victor (Instituto Superior Técnico, PT)
- ▬ Shahab Shamshirband (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO)
- ▬ Narasimhan Sundararajan (Nanyang Technological University, SG)
- ▬ José Luis Verdegay (University of Granada, ES)
- ▬ Fernando J. Von Zuben (University of Campinas, BR)
- ▬ Xin-She Yang (Middlesex University, UK)
- ▬ Bo Yuan (Rochester Institute of Technology, US)
- ▬ Yi Zhang (Sichuan University, CN)
- ▬ Xudong Zhao (Bohai University, CN)