Guangzhen Zhou was born in Shanghai China, he is a ceramic artist, independent researcher, and Goodwill Ambassador for IAC, and he was former council member of IAC, representative for China. He earned master's degrees from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and San Jose State University. He has taught, lectured, and participated in exchange events worldwide, and traveled to over 120 countries or regions for the book project, "Overview of World Ceramic Cultural Heritage" (Chinese edition published in 2023). Having witnessed the living history of traditional ceramics, indigenous pottery, and archaeological fragments. In November 2025, his contribution documentary collection of Global Ceramic Heritage Stamps (GCHS) became a proposal submitted to UNESCO Memory of the World committee for evaluation.

Dr Ronnie Watt is a South African ceramics art historian based in Canada. As researcher, collector, and author his work focuses on the contextual history and historiography of South African ceramics. His research examines how ceramic objects generate historical knowledge through their material, visual, social, and cultural relationships, with particular emphasis on contextual histories and object narratives. He holds a PhD in Art History from the University of South Africa and is currently undertaking further doctoral research in Visual Studies at the University of Pretoria, where he is also a Research Associate. His publications have contributed to expanding the study of South African ceramics beyond artist-centred narratives to broader questions of material culture, visual studies, collecting, identity, and historical interpretation.

Naman Parmeshwar Ahuja (born 1974) is an art historian and curator based in New Delhi. He is Professor of Indian Art and Architecture at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi where his research and graduate teaching focus on Indian iconography and sculpture, temple architecture and Sultanate-period painting. He is also the Editor of Marg, India’s leading quarterly magazine and journal on the arts, published from Mumbai. His studies on privately owned objects—terracottas, ivories and small finds—have drawn attention to a wide range of ritual cultures and transcultural exchanges at an everyday, quotidian level. He has curated several exhibitions, most notably The Body in Indian Art and Thought, and published books, including The Making of the Modern Indian Artist Craftsman: Devi Prasad.