Dr Paul Flather is a Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, and Secretary-General of the Europaeum, an association of leading European universities. His research is on democratic change in India, including ways and means of combating corruption there. He is a former journalist, having worked with the BBC, Times Newspapers and New Statesman; served as elected chairman of the London post-schools education committee; and  founding Chief Executive / Secretary General of the Central European University set up by George Soros, and recently Director external and international relations for Oxford University.

Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky is a Senior Research Fellow at Brunel University, who has written and lectured extensively on corruption issues, particularly the problems of funding political parties. He is founder trustee of the Westminster Foundation of Democracy and also sits on the international executive of the World Movement for Democracy and the Board of the International Foundation for Election Systems.