Zeinab Badawi
Broadcaster and Trustee,BBC World Service Trust
Stephen King
BBC World Service TrustLouis Michel
European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian AidProfessor Wiseman Nkuhlu
Former Chairman, New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)Alhaji Bamanga Tukur
Exec. President, African Business Roundtable Chairman, NEPAD Business GroupPaul Walsh (Chair)
CEO, Diageo plcTim Sebastian
Broadcast JournalistBaroness Shriti Vadera
Minister for Business and CompetitivenessBaroness Shriti Vadera
Shriti Vadera is Minister for Business and Competitiveness in the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, UK. Her portfolio includes all aspects of business issues and better regulation. For seven months before that she was a Minister at the Department of International Development.
Prior to that she spent eight years on the Council of Economic Advisers, HM Treasury and as an adviser to Gordon Brown when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. She advised on business and city issues and worked on policies to increase productivity, enterprise and innovation in the economy to maintain our competitiveness in the face of increased globalisation.
She was a trustee of the international development charity, Oxfam, from 2000 - 2005 and also advised Gordon Brown on international development. She has worked on debt relief since the early 90s, the 2005 Gleneagles agenda, Education for All and the global immunisation initiative targeted to save five million children’s lives in the next 10 years.
She started her career in the City with 14 years at investment bank S.G Warburg (UBS). She has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford and spent her childhood in Uganda and India.