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

Aphra Green (Chair), 2015 Fellow and Deputy Chief Executive, Social Wellbeing Agency

John Boshier (Treasurer), 1976 Fellow and former energy sector executive and consultant

Heather Baggott Deputy Chief Executive, Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission

Peter Griffin, 2012 Fellow and science and technology freelance journalist

Aimee Hadrup (Secretary), 2023 Fellow and Manager Tamariki Wellbeing, The Southern Initiative

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.