 The current chair of the committee is Vikram Balasubramaniam, from Nanyang Technological University.Past chairpersons include Rajesh Krishnan (Nanyang Technological University), Shuvam Dutta (Singapore Management University), Leloy Claudio (Ateneo de Manila University) and Estelle Osorio (De La Salle University).Institutions who were unhappy about aspects of the organisation of the All-Asian Intervarsity Debating Championships established the Asian Universities Debating Championship in 2005 as an alternative to the All-Asians Championship.