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

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

Aphra Green, General Manager, Strategy, Evidence & Investment

Pattrick Smellie, business journalist and co-owner of BusinessDesk

Peter Griffin, science and technology freelance journalist, New Zealand Listener, RNZ, Stuff – http://www.petergriffin.co.nz

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.