panelist

/ˈpænləst/

Other forms: panelists

If you're a member of a group that's officially (sometimes publicly) discussing a specific subject, you're a panelist.

Most panelists are either experts in the subject being discussed, or people whose lives are affected by related issues, developments, or changes. A group of panelists is called a panel, which comes from the Old French, in which it means "piece of cloth," and an Anglo-French legal meaning, "piece of parchment listing jurors." Panelist is an American English invention from about 1950.

Definitions of panelist

1. noun

   a member of a panel
   synonyms: panellist

   types:

   juror, juryman, jurywoman

   someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury

   foreperson

   the presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf

   petit juror, petty juror

   a member of a petit jury

   type of:

   critic

   anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something