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 CompetitivenessTim 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.