Sport
- Professor Sarah Kelly - a director on the Brisbane 2032 Organising Committee Board, Head of the QUT Graduate School of Business, and internationally known for her sports research, teaching and consulting
- Emily Rosemond OLY - Director of Sport at QUT, former Winter Olympian and Commonwealth Games medallist
- Professor Gene Moyle - senior sport and exercise psychologist, former senior performance psychologist for the Australian Institute of Sport, former senior advisor for the Queensland Academy of Sport
- Professor Nick Brown - head of QUT School of Clinical Sciences, previously AOC director of performance services at 2016 Olympic Games
- Associate Professor Vince Kelly - world leader in sports science and strength and conditioning research, previous roles in the NRL, Super Rugby and with the Australian Institute of Sport and Queensland Academy of Sport
- Dr Kath O'Brien - senior lecturer in QUT School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, recognised as one of Australia's leading women shaping the future of sports innovation
- Dr Paul Wu - leads the sports systems domain in the QUT Centre for Data Science, industry research fellow in QUT's strategic partnership with the Australian Institute of Sport and Queensland Academy of Sport
- Dr Edgar Santos-Fernandez - sport analytics and data science researcher and expert from the QUT School of Mathematical Sciences
- Associate Professor Geoff Minnett - sports scientist and discipline lead for sport, exercise, health and physical education in the QUT School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Social justice
Sustainability
- Professor Leonie Barner - director of QUT Centre for Waste-Free World, principal research fellow at QUT Faculty of Science School of Chemistry and Physics
- Professor Marcus Foth - founding member of the More-than-Human Futures research group
- Professor Tan Yigitcanlar - professor of urban studies and planning at the QUT School of Architecture and Built Environment
- Associate Professor Tiziana Ferrero-Regis - co-leader of the TextileR Group, lecturer and scholar in fashion at the School of Design in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
- Dr Yilin Gui - senior lecturer of geotechnical engineering from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Tourism
- Dr Char-lee McLennan - from QUT School of Management and Centre for Data Science, expertise in tourism, event management, major infrastructure monitoring, digital twins, and community impacts of mega events
Transport and infrastructure
- Professor Michael Milford - expert in autonomous vehicles, robotics, navigation, positioning and artificial intelligence technologies
- Dr Mark Limb - lecturer in the QUT School of Architecture and Built Environment, expertise in urban and regional planning with a particular focus on land use and policy evaluation
- Professor Shimul Haque - internationally recognised researcher in road safety engineering, professor of transportation engineering at the QUT Faculty of Engineering School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Associate Professor Jonathan Bunker - from the QUT Faculty of Engineering, conducts research in transit performance
- Professor Alexander Paz - the Transport and Main Roads Chair for QUT, expert on transport systems analysis and evaluation
- Associate Professor Ashish Bhaskar - co-leads business and engineering systems research domain at the QUT Centre for Data Science
- Dr Lyndall Bryant - senior lecturer and researcher at the QUT Faculty of Business and Law specialising in property economics
