Mr. Haibach was born in 1971 in Germany, where he studied Latin, Ancient Greek and History, before becoming an assistant at the constituency office of Brigitte Kölsch, who was a member of the Land Parliament of Hesse at the time. He then became Private Secretary to the District Commissioner Jürgen Banzer in 1999.

Mr. Haibach was a Parliamentarian in the German Bundestag from 2002-2011, where he was a Deputy Member of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid Committee, as well as the Foreign Affairs Committee. He was also the Chairman of the Working Group on Economic Cooperation and Development of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, and a member of the subcommittee on Disarmament and Arms Control, and of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development.

Mr. Haibach is currently the Resident Representative of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Namibia.
 

Mr. Härstedt is Member of the Riksdag since the Swedish general election in 1998. Actively interested in politics since the age of 16, he was elected to the municipal council of Helsingborg, where he remained for six years. He worked as a freelance writer and published hundreds of articles in various news papers and magazines.
In 1998 he was elected to the Riksdag and still remains there. In 2004 and 2005, he was Alcohol Commissioner for the Swedish government. He also worked as political adviser to the Prime Minister, for International and EU Affairs. Since 2002 Mr. Härstedt is Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Hopkins was born in Leicester, the son of Professor Harold Hopkins FRS. He studied at the University of Nottingham, where he was awarded a BA degree in Politics, Economics and Mathematics with Statistics. With the exception of two years as a lecturer at the St Albans FE College (now called Oaklands College) from 1971 he has worked entirely within the trade union movement. Kelvin was elected to the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election for Luton North and has remained the MP there since. In parliament he served as a member of the broadcasting select committee for two years from 1999, and has been a member of the public administration select committee since 2002. He is a member of the European Scrutiny Select Committee. He is also a member of many all-party groups; he is the Secretary of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group, and chairman of the group on further education and lifelong learning.

Mr. Howarth was first elected to Parliament in a by-election on 13 November 1986 for Knowsley North. In 1997 following boundary changes the seat became Knowsley North and Sefton East. He was elected as a councillor to the Huyton District Council in 1971 and served in its successor,the Knowsley Borough Council, until 1986. During that time Mr. Howarth was chair of the Housing Committee and latterly the Finance Committee. He was also chair of the Knowsley South Constituency Labour Party for four years from 1981. In Parliament Mr. Howarth served as an opposition spokesperson on Environment 1989-1994 and Home Affairs 1994-1997. In 1997 he was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office, and then went to the Northern Ireland Office in 1999. Since leaving the Government in 2001 he has served on a number of select committees and is currently a member of the Modernisation Committee and the Intelligence and Security Committee. He also chairs the All Party Group on Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008 and became a member of the Privy Council in 2005.During 2007 and 2008 he was a member of the sentencing commission working group, which was set up following the review of prisons by Lord Carter of Coles.