V červenci 2019 vznikl při Orientálním ústavu Mezinárodní poradní sbor složený z těchto odborníků:
- Mareile Flitsch – University of Zurich, Director of the Ethnographic Museum and Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
- David Howell – Harvard University, Professor of Japanese History
- Eberhard Kienle – Sciences Po/CNRS, Directeur de recherché
- Gudrun Kramer – Freie Universität Berlin, Professor of Islamic Studies, member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Research Council
- James Leibold – La Trobe University, Melbourne, Professor in Chinese Politics and Asian Studies
- Madeleine Reeves – University of Manchester, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology
- Atreyee Sen – University of Copenhagen, Professor of Anthropology
- Martin Slama – Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Naghmeh Sohrabi – Brandeis University, Professor, Charles (Corky) Goodman Chair in Middle East History