Chairman: Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE
Global Head of Corporate Citizenship and Diversity for KPMG (2006- present). Head of Public Affairs then Corporate Responsibility at the BBC (1996- 2006). Chairman of Council of Reference to ZANE.

Tom Benyon OBE
founder of ZANE: Zimbabwe A National Emergency

John Simpson CBE
BBC World Affairs Editor and the BBC’s most senior and award winning broadcaster. John has reported on Zimbabwe and interviewed Robert Mugabe on a number of occasions.

Rt Hon the Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
Lady Chalker is Chairman of Africa Matters Limited, an independent consultancy on Africa and development to business and governments. From 1979-97, she held numerous Ministerial offices, including Africa Minister 1986-97 & Overseas Development 1989-97. In those years she spent time with Robert Mugabe and his first wife.

Matthew Neuhaus
Matthew Neuhaus is a senior Australian Diplomat. From 2012-5 Matthew was Australia’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe. Prior to that he was Australia’s High Commissioner of Nigeria. From 2002-8 he was Director of the Political Affairs Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London.