Zeinab Badawi

Broadcaster and Trustee,
BBC World Service Trust

Stephen King

BBC World Service Trust

Louis Michel

European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid

Professor Wiseman Nkuhlu

Former Chairman, New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)

Alhaji Bamanga Tukur

Exec. President, African Business Roundtable Chairman, NEPAD Business Group

Paul Walsh (Chair)

CEO, Diageo plc

Tim Sebastian

Broadcast Journalist

Baroness Shriti Vadera

Minister for Business and Competitiveness


Tim Sebastian


Tim Sebastian is an internationally renowned broadcaster and a two-time winner of the Royal Television Society's "Interviewer of the Year" award.

Tim has been both the BBC's Washington and Moscow correspondent but is best known for his 7 years at the helm of "HardTalk" the BBC's flagship interview programme. In that time he has interviewed many of the world's presidents, prime ministers and business leaders and become known for his inimitable, robust approach.