Haris is a medical student whose advisory work in health and social care started as Co-Founder of the Youth Board at Leeds Community Healthcare Trust, before completing his NED placement earlier this year with NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board via the NHS England NExT Director Programme, the first in the country to do so. He has worked as youth representative on Leeds CCG Governing Body, sits on the Board of Trustees of Leeds Hospitals Charity and is a member of the Partnership’s People’s Board. He is Founder and Chair of the National Network of Youth Forums and is a board member of the CYP Transformation Programme at NHS England. He has led national initiatives looking into the teaching of health inequalities and worked with the DHSC and PHE on young people’s vaccines throughout the pandemic.

Jonas has held his current chair role at the University of Hamburg since 2010, where he is also Scientific Director at HCHE. He is deputy chairman of the German Council of Economic Experts for the Assessment of Developments in Health Care and Nursing and a member of numerous other scientific advisory boards. Prior to his appointment at the University of Hamburg, Jonas was Professor of Business Administration, in particular Health Services Management, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and previously worked as a junior professor at the Technical University of Berlin. From 2006-2007, Jonas was a Harkness Fellow at Stanford University where he also completed his doctorate, and has since spent time teaching and researching in Norway, Singapore, Taiwan and the USA.

As the FT's global health editor, Sarah covers the NHS, and healthcare developments around the world. In more than 22 years at the FT, she has held a variety of editing and reporting roles including weekend news editor, analysis editor, UK news editor, public policy editor and global pharmaceuticals editor. Immediately before joining the FT she spent a decade reporting on Westminster, latterly as political editor of the Yorkshire Post. In 1995 she was awarded the Laurence Stern Fellowship on the Washington Post.

Richard was appointed as Chief Executive of The King's Fund in January 2019, after five years as the Director of Policy, stepping down from the role in 2023. Before joining the Fund in January 2014, Richard was chief analyst at NHS England and previously held a number of roles at the DoH, including director of strategy, director of financial planning and chief economist. Richard initially trained as an economist and spent five years in academia before joining the DoH as an economic adviser, where he returned after four years as a health care specialist at McKinsey & Co.

Sola brings 20 years of Board leadership experience and has a portfolio of a number of Non-Executive Director (NED) lay advisory and Trustee roles in health and social care and across the wider public sector. She is currently a NED at both a large acute and Community NHS Trust and a mental health trust in SWL, and chairs the South London Partnership Committee in Common and the Anti-Racist Strategy and Implementation group for SW London Integrated Care System. She is also a National Professional Advisor for the Care Quality Commission; the Health and Social Care Regulator. In East London she is the Independent Chair for a local Authority’s Safeguarding Adults Board and was the system leadership independent Co-Chair of Birmingham Council’s BLACHIR health inequalities programme. Prior to this she was the National Equality Advisor to the NHS for the DoH. She runs a strategy, OD and EDI consultancy and was awarded an MBE in 2013 for her leadership role tackling inequalities for marginalised and racialised communities and has throughout her career been committed to social inclusion and achieving health equity.