Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, Secretary-General of the Europaeum, and associate of leading European universities. He is a former academic, human rights activist, and journalist working at the Times newspaper group, the BBC, and many journals, including the New Statesman. His main research has focused on Indian politics. He worked with dissident movements in Central Europe in the 1980s, and with race equality groups in the UK since. He is involved with many charities and civic bodies, and was an elected member of the Inner London Education Authority in the 1980s. He was founding Secretary-General of the Central European University, set up by George Soros in 1991, and enabled several multi-million dollar Soros programmes. He served as director of international and external affairs at Oxford University for five years, before taking over the Europaeum, an association of leading European universities.  Dr Paul Flather participated in the annual Forum 2000 conferences in human rights and democracy ,read more here.

Daughter of the late Manzoor Hayat Noon, former trustee of the VNEF, and grand daughter of Sir Firoz Khan Noon. She completed her early education at Lahore Grammar School, and graduated from Kinnaird College Lahore in Political Science in 1988. She acquired a Masters’ degree in Comparative Philosophy. She serves as a representative and teaching guide in the Inayati Order, a non-profit international organization of spiritual study and universal sufism. She has presented papers at various international symposia and written articles on Spirituality, Islamic Feminism and World Peace. She currently resides in Lahore, Pakistan.

Former President of the International Cricket Council, and a Chartered Accountant by profession. He was, until September 2015, the senior independent director of one of the largest Registered Social Landlords in the UK, where he was also the chair of the audit & risk committee and a member of the strategic finance committee. He served as a director of two banks in the United Kingdom for over 25 years. He is a member of the Board of Governors and chairman of the audit committee of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital and Research Centre in Lahore, Pakistan. He is a trustee of Sanjan Nagar Educational Trust, which provides high level English medium education to over 900 under-privileged children (mainly girls) in Lahore. He also chairs the Finance Committee of Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Khwaja Ahmad Hosain is one of Pakistan’s leading corporate lawyers and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He has served as Additional Attorney General for Pakistan and represented the Federation of Pakistan in various cases before the Supreme Court. He is a graduate from Oxford University and was called to the Bar in 1991. He is an Adjunct Faculty Member of the Lahore University of Management Sciences and serves in a non-executive capacity as a director on the Boards of various companies. He lives in Lahore.

Managing Director of Oxford University Press Pakistan, with additional responsibilities for the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa. She is the first woman in Pakistan to be President of the Overseas Investors’ Chamber of Commerce Industry (OICCI) in its 150 year history, and to become head of a multinational company. In 2005, she was awarded the OBE by the Queen, and in 2013, the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the Government of France. She is the founder and director of the Karachi and Islamabad Literature Festivals.

Faizal completed his PhD in Intellectual History at the University of Chicago in 1994. He was then elected Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, after which he went on to run the graduate program at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, which included schools in Tajikistan and Iran.  Returning to regular academic life in 2003, he taught for two years at Yale as a visiting lecturer and another four at The New School for Social Research in New York as Associate Professor, arriving in Oxford as Reader in Modern South Asian History in 2009.  He is interested in the intellectual history and political thought of modern South Asia as well as in the emergence of Islam as a global category. His notable works include ,Muslim Zion : Pakistan as a Political Idea and The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the temptation of Violence

Kamal Munir is Pro Vice Chancellor for University Community and Engagement, and Professor of Strategy and Policy. Prof Munir has published numerous articles in leading organizational and management journals. His work has been quoted and cited in several forums, including the BBC, CNN, ABC, World Economic Forum, Financial Times, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Wired magazine, and BusinessWeek among many others. Prof Munir has won several teaching awards and consulted for several public and private sector organizations. He is a Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge and Academic Director of the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy.