President
HRH The Duke of Kent KG GCMG GCVO ADC
Chairman
Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach GBE KCB ADC DL
Board Members
Desmond Bowen CB CMG
Hugh Bullock
Elizabeth Cleaver
Lieutenant-General Andrew Figgures CB CBE
Rear Admiral Amjad Hussain CB
Professor Margaret MacMillan CH CC DPhil
Tim Marlow
Suzanne Nicholas
Tamsin Todd
Peter Watkins CBE
Mark Urban
Matthew Westerman (Deputy Chair)
One vacancy
His Excellency The Hon George Brandis QC (High Commissioner for Australia)
Her Excellency Janice Charette (High Commissioner for Canada)
Her Excellency Mrs Ruchi Ghanashyam (High Commissioner for India)
His Excellency Lt General the Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae (High Commissioner for New Zealand)
His Excellency Mohammad Nafees Zakaria (High Commissioner for Pakistan)
Her Excellency Ms Nomatemba Tambo (High Commissioner for South Africa)
His Excellency Manisha Gunasekera (High Commissioner for Sri Lanka)
The Sovereign appoints the President of the Board. The Prime Minister appoints ten members, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs two (Desmond Bowen and Suzanne Nicholas), the Secretary of State for Defence one (Peter Watkins) and the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport one (Mark Urban). Their High Commissioners represent seven Commonwealth Governments ex officio.