Zeinab is the current Chair of the Royal African Society.
Term begins 1 April 2021.

Patricia Cumper MBE FRSA is an award-winning playwright who has written for theatre and radio for more than thirty years. 
Term begins 1 April 2021.

Adrienne Scullion is a cultural historian with particular expertise in theatre and drama in Scotland.
Term begins 1 April 2021.

Professor Christopher Smith is the Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council

Professor Ambreena Manji is the Professor of Land Law and Development at Cardiff University

Professor Anthony Lilley is the CEO & Chief Creative Officer of Magic Lantern Productions Ltd and Professor of Creative Industries at Ulster University

Professor Chris Wickham is the Chichele Professor of Medieval History emeritus at the University of Oxford and is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham

Professor Sir David Eastwood is the Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of Birmingham

Professor Sir Drummond Bone is the Senior Independent Member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Chair the Wordsworth Trust.

Professor Fiona Macpherson is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience at the University of Glasgow

Professor Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh

Professor Dame Janet Beer is the Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool

Dame Judith Macgregor DCMG LVO is former British High Commissioner to South Africa, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Professor Hagan Bayley is Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford