Trevor Manuel is Chairman of Old Mutual Limited and also serves on the board of Old Mutual Life Assurance Company (South Africa). He is a Non-Executive Director & Deputy Chairperson of Rothschild & Co. South Africa and an Envoy on Investment to the President of South Africa. He was a former Minister of Finance in the South African government.

Jackie Chimhanzi is the Regional Director for Southern Africa at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.  She is also the former CEO of the African Leadership Institute and a 2010 Archbishop Tutu Fellow. 

Kunyala Maphisa is co-founder and principal partner for Brighton Wealth Subsaharan, a South African based investment and advisory firm with a diversified investment portfolio of companies.  She is currently on the Governing Council of the University of Cape Town and is President of BWASA, the Businesswomen’s Association of South Africa. She is a 2006 Tutu Fellow.

Olugbenga Adesida is an economist and strategy and development consultant with more than 25 years’ experience in leadership development and economic policy during which time he has advised several African governments at the highest levels and the UNDP. He is partner and co-founder of a business development firm, Ihaba, and serves as a board member for several African leadership organisations, including AFLI.

Isaac Fokuo is the Founder and Principal of Botho Emerging Markets Group, an investment and strategy advisory firm with offices in Nairobi, Dubai, and Chicago.  He also founded the Amahoro Coalition, which aims to systematically engage Africa's private sector in creating economic opportunities and transformation for forcibly-displaced individuals and host communities. He is a 2014 Tutu Fellow.

Peter Wilson is the Co-Founder of the African Leadership Institute and the Director of Programmes. He runs his own Management Consulting company, PRB Consulting, advising global corporations and African governments on strategic development. He is a Rhodes Scholar.

Now retired and active in the NGO sector, John Greensmith was previously the Chief Executive of Plan International’s global operations. Plan International is a development and humanitarian organisation based in the UK that works in more than 75 countries across Africa, the Americas, and Asia, focusing on children's rights. Prior to that, he was the Chief Executive of BP Africa.

Allen Zimbler is the Former Chief Integration Officer for the Investec Group and Executive Director of Investec Bank Plc. Now semi-retired, he has worked in the nonprofit sector, including serving as the Chairman of the Board of the Ju/'hoansi Development Fund, an organisation set up to help preserve the heritage of San children.

Martin Lawrence Kingston is a prominent South African business executive with a distinguished career in investment banking and corporate finance. He has over 40 years’ experience in the financial services industry, initially as a chartered accountant /tax specialist and, for the majority of his career, as an investment banker. He has advised entrepreneurs, corporates, governments and state-owned enterprises around the world across a wide variety of sectors.

Sean Lance was previously Chairman & CEO of Chiron Corporation, a US biotechnology company, and before that, the COO of Glaxo-Wellcome, the UK-based international pharmaceutical company. In his retirement, he continued serving on the Boards of pharmaceutical companies Crucell (Netherlands) and Interpharma (Hong Kong).

Lai Yahaya is a lawyer and political economist who has spent the last two decades working as a senior policy advisor to governments, development finance institutions, and major international corporations in Sub-Saharan Africa. He received his BA(Hons) and MA from Balliol College, Oxford University and MSc in Business Economics. He is Yale World Fellow, the current CEO of AFLI and a 2009 Archbishop Tutu Fellow.