Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, Brian Kernighan, Russ Cox, Robert Griesemer are guys who created Unix, B, C, Go, Utf-8, etc. Maybe it will be useful to invite these guys(one of them) in the C Standards Committee for help to improve and design new language features?
I think a lot of these dudes are retired. A lot of good C people like P.J. Plauger, John Benito, and Clark Nelson have all retired recently. Anyway, they are all invited back. As an incentive, we typically have free coffee and snacks at most of the meetings. :)