| Malcolm Bolton | Former President of IPA, Emeritus Professor, The University of Cambridge |
| Charles Ng | President, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) |
| Neil Taylor | Secretary General, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) |
| Roger Frank | Honorary Professor of Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Lab Navier-geotechnical team (CERMES) |
| Mark Randolph | Professor, University of Western Australia |
| Bengt H. Fellenius | Consulting Engineer |
| Jianmin Zhang | Professor, Tsinghua University, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering |
| Marcos Massao Futai | IPA Director, Professor, Geoinfra, University of Sao Paulo |
| Kenichi Soga | IPA Director, Chancellor’s Professor, UC Barkley |
| Leung Chun Fai | IPA Director/Vice President, Professor, National University of Singapore |
| Kenneth Gavin | IPA Director, Professor, Delft University of Technology |
| Michael Doubrovsky | IPA Director, Professor, Odessa National Maritime University |
| Nor Azizi Bin Yusoff | Vice president of IPA, Senior Lecturer, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) |
| Mounir Bouassida | IPA Director, Professor, University of Tunis El Manar – National Engineering of School of Tunis |
| Stuart Haigh | IPA Director, Senior Lecturer, The University of Cambridge |
| Osamu Kusakabe | President, International Press-in Association (IPA) |
| Yasuo Hayashi | President, Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) |
| Jun Otani | President, Japanese Geotechnical Society (JGS) |
| Kenichi Horikoshi | Secretary General, Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC) |
| Yoshiaki Kikuchi | IPA director, Chair, Research Committee of IPA |
| Shoji Hamada | Governor, Kochi Prefecture |
| Masahiko Isobe | President, Kochi University of Technology |
| Kiyoshi Ise | President, National Institute of Technology, Kochi College |
| Kazuyoshi Tateyama | Professor, Ritsumeikan University |
| Tadayuki Tazaki | President, Japan Construction Machinery and Construction Association |
| Michio Okahara | Representative Director, Japanese Association for Steel Pipe Piles |
| Akio Kitamura | President, GIKEN LTD. |
