This year's judges are:

• Dato Dr. Michael O.K. Yeoh, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute (ASLI) and Secretary-General of the Malaysia-China Business Council
• David S. Chen, Ph. D, Vice President, Public Policy and Government Relationship at General Motors China Investment Company Limited
• Julia Ahmad, President of PRCA Malaysia and the Managing Director of Hill & Knowlton (SEA) Sdn Bhd in Kuala Lumpur
• K Bhavani, Director of Public Communications at the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA) in Singapore
• Owen Ma, the Government Affairs Director at PepsiCo in China
• Mani Shankar Aiyar, a former Federal Cabinet minister, Indian politician and former diplomat
• Sukanti Ghosh, recently the head of corporate affairs at Barclays Bank Plc
• Junie Del Mundo, the Managing Director of EON, the Philippines stakeholder relations firm
• Elizabeth Hernandez, Vice President, Government Affairs, Asia Pacific & Japan at Hewlett-Packard
• Paul Mottram, Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific, at Bite Communications, formerly Upstream Asia
• Lynne Anne S. Davis, Regional President and Senior Partner of Fleishman-Hillard
• Derek M. LaVallee, Director of Public Affairs & Public Relations at KG Partners
• Jean Liu, a marketing and strategy executive with IBM in China

Read full list at the PublicAffairsAsia website.