Board
Chair
- Professor Michael Keith, Centre Director, COMPAS, University of Oxford
Vice Chair
- Tandeep Minhas, Partner, Taylor Wessing LLP
Other members
- Chila Kumari Burman, Visual artist
- Denise Jones, Eastside Bookshop founder and local resident
- Niranjan Kamatkar, Artistic Director of Wise Thoughts
- Joseph Ogbonna, Independent Management Consultant
- John Pandit, Founder member of Asian Dub Foundation and their education wing (ADFED)
- Cllr Rachael Saunders, London Borough of Tower Hamlets Councillor
- Steve Douglas, Management consultant and Interim Director LB Hackney
- Matthew Xia, Associate Director, Theatre Royal Stratford East
- Cllr Mizan Chaudhury, London Borough of Tower Hamlets Councillor
- Rebecca Renfro, Head of Stakeholder Relations, Channel 4
- Jim Hollington, Director Operations and Communications, British Council
Patrons
- Rumi Verjee
- Oona King, Head of Diversity, Channel 4
- Shabina Aslam, Associate at Lift since 2006. Theatre practitioner and Radio Drama producer




