Prof. Riccardo Giacconi (Italy, chairman)

Prof. Felix Aharonian (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland - Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysis, Heidelberg, Germany)

Dr. Carlo Bianco (ICRA, Università "La Sapienza", Italy)

Prof. Joao Braga (INPE, Brazil)

Prof. Hagen Kleinert on behalf of Prof. W. Stoeger (Vatican)  

Prof. John Mester (University of Stanford, USA)

Dr. Gregory Vereshchagin (ICRANet) on behalf of Prof. David Arnett (University of Arizona, USA)