The current trustees of the New Zealand Harkness Fellowships Trust (Inc) are:

Aphra Green (Chair), Deputy Chief Executive, Social Wellbeing Agency

John Boshier (Treasurer), former energy sector executive and consultant. Director, Boshier Consulting Ltd.

Heather Baggott Acting Public Service Commissioner, Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission

Peter Griffin, Science and technology freelance journalist, BusinessDesk, New Zealand Listener

Our patron – Professor Sir Richard Faull, neuroscientist and acclaimed academic who specialises in human neurodegenerative diseases. He is a professor of anatomy and director of the Centre for Brain Research at the University of Auckland.