SIR MARK TULLY  had a very distinguished career as BBC correspondent for South Asia for 25 years. With a vast knowledge of and respect for Indian culture he has written a number of books on the subject. His understanding of all things Indian did not happen by accident. Mark Tully was born in Calcutta in 1936. The son of a wealthy accountant, he was brought up by a strict European coming to Britain when he was ten. He joined the BBC and became correspondent, moving to Delhi 1964. Mark Tulley’s pieces painted pictures of the reality behind the headlines and the effect of war, poverty and disease on ordinary people. He was made an Officer of The Order of the British Empire in 1985 and was awarded the Padma Shree in 1992, a rare distinction for a non-Indian. He was knighted in the 2002 New Year Honours. In 2005 he received the Padma Bhushan.

ZEINAB BADAWI  is a television and radio reporter and news presenter in the UK. Born in Sudan she has lived in Britain since the age of two. An Oxford graduate in politics and economics, with a post-graduate degree on the Middle East from London University.
Zeinab has been in broadcasting for nearly two decades and has worked on an extensive and impressive range of programmes.

LORD BILIMORIA is a member of the Government’s National Employment Panel and served as Chairman of the Panel’s Small and Medium Sized Enterprise (SME) Board from 2001 to 2005. He is the Representative Deputy Lieutenant for the London Borough of Hounslow and the Chancellor of Thames Valley University - the UK’s youngest at the time of his appointment.
In 2003 Lord Bilimoria was appointed as the UK Chairman of the Indo British Partnership (IBP) by the British Government, and serves as founding Chairman of the UK India Business Council (UKIBC). He is also a member of the Chancellor’s Asia Task Force and the UK-India Round Table, Vice Chairman of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Asian Business Association, and a member of the Bank of England – LCCI / Asian Business Association Panel.