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

Ross Tanner (Chair), a former Deputy State Services Commissioner, currently a professional director and consultant

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

Dr Roger Blakely Chief Planning Officer, Auckland City Council

Jo Brosnahan, Director of Leaders for the Future, and Chair of Hunter Downs Development Co Ltd, and Northpower Fibre

Peter Douglas, Chief Executive of Te Ohu Kai Moana, the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission

Professor Cynthia Farquhar, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National Women’s Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand

Professor Richard Faull, Director of the Centre for Brain Research, University of Auckland

Kay Harrison, Manager, International Climate Change and Environment Policy, Ministry for the Environment

Dr Margot McLean, Medical Officer of Health, Hutt Valley District Health Board

Neville Trendle, Former Assistant Commissioner of Police, now member of the Parole Board

Dr Bryce Wilkinson, Director of Capital Economics, and a widely recognised economic researcher and commentator

Peter Griffin, Manager Science Media Centre, Royal Society of New Zealand, New Zealand Listener and Radio New Zealand technology correspondent