Mr. Zamani was director of the Southern Europe and Central Asia Department of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector lending arm of the World Bank, from March 2000 to July 2005. This department was responsible for the IFC investment programme in 15 countries across the region. As of July 1st, 2005, Mr. Zamani was appointed as Senior Advisor to the Vice President of Operations.
Whilst a director at IFC, Mr. Zamani was instrumental in building the IFC investment programme in the region with several new initiatives, particularly in Central Asia and Caucasia.  He oversaw the IFC portfolio of more than US$2billion, diversified across the financial, oil and gas, mining and manufacturing sectors. 

Mr. Vaziri served at the Ministry of the Imperial Court of the Shah of Iran before moving to the US Mr. Vaziri was the initial founder of the US Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce (USACC) and has been appointed chairman for life. In his role with the USACC, he has arranged and participated in a number of economic delegations to Azerbaijan and played a key role in bringing US investment to the country.

Mr. Round is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. He began his career with British Coal in 1977. In 1987 Mr. Round joined Ferrum Holdings plc, becoming group Finance Director in 1993. In 1995 Mr. Round became Finance Director of Consolidated Supply Management Limited, an international oilfield logistics group operating primarily in Latin America and the Former Soviet Union, including Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. In 2001, Mr. Round became Financial Director for the Mining (Scotland) group, the largest opencast coal mining company in the UK, before joining Anglo Asian in September 2005. Mr Round has also been Finance Director of Cambrian Mining PLC, Lubel Coal Company Limited and is now Finance Director of Novera Energy PLC.

Governor Sununu received a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught engineering at Tufts University for 16 years. He served three terms as the governor of New Hampshire before President George H.W. Bush appointed him Chief of Staff in 1989, a position that he held until March 1992. After his tenure as Chief of Staff, he co-hosted CNN’s Crossfire, ran an engineering firm, and then in 2004 served as the visiting Roy M. and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of Practice in Public Service at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Governor Sununu is a former partner in Trinity International Partners, a private financial firm, and currently serves as President of JHS Associates, Ltd.

Emeritus Professor John Monhemius held the Roy Wright Chair in Mineral and Environmental Engineering at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London, until 2004, when he retired from full-time academic work. From 2000 to 2004, he was Dean of the Royal School of Mines.  He has more than 40 years experience of academic and industrial research and development in hydrometallurgy and environmental control in mining and metallurgical processes, particularly in the management of toxic wastes and effluents, and he has acted as a consultant to many large mining and chemical companies. Professor Monhemius has published over 130 papers in the scientific literature and he has supervised more than 30 PhD students.  From 1986-96, he was a co-founder and director of Consort Research Ltd., a consultancy specialising in gold and base metal ore processing. Currently, he is a non-executive director of Obtala Resources plc and he is a member of the National Council of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) and is Board Chairman of the Division of Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy.