Zeinab Badawi was born in Sudan.  She has a BA Hons degree from Oxford University,  where she is an honorary fellow, and an MA  from SOAS, London University.  

In addition to a long broadcast career that includes programmes such as Hardtalk and a   20 part BBC tv series on the history of Africa , Zeinab is  President of SOAS, she sits on several boards such as  the  Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales, MINDS - the Mandela Institute for Development Studies, the International Crisis Group The Royal Opera House and the Arts Humanities and Research Council Zeinab has received many awards,  honorary doctorates, and the British Academy’s President Medal. She  has four children.

Joseph Harker is Senior Editor, Diversity, and Development at The Guardian. He has also been co-lead of the Guardian's Legacies of Enslavement project – which examined the links between the Guardian's founder and transatlantic slavery, issued an apology, and drew up a £10m+ restorative justice action plan.

Joseph also sits on the board of the Society of Editors.

Joseph is a former Guardian Deputy Opinion Editor. And for over 20 years he has run the Guardian's Positive Action Scheme, which offers enhanced work experience to aspiring journalists who are ethnic-minority or have a disability: many have gone on to have successful media careers.

Before joining the Guardian, Joseph was Editor and Publisher of the weekly newspaper Black Briton, and prior to that he was Assistant Editor at The Voice newspaper.
He tweets at @josephharker

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Matt Walsh is the head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. He moved into academia after more than 20 years as a working journalist in broadcast and digital media. In 1999, He joined ITN as a radio reporter from the BBC and rose to become Deputy Editor of the ITV News Channel, where he worked on stories such as 9/11 and the Iraq War. In 2006, he moved to The Times to set up its multimedia journalism department. Matt has also worked internationally with the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Al Jazeera. He continues to work closely at the nexus of academia and industry as a trustee of journalism training charities and on the Standards Code committee for IMPRESS.