Ms. Saffin has founded many local initiatives and programs, including being one of the founders of the North Coast Breast Screening Program, and represented the New South Wales in the NSW Upper House from 1995 to 2003. Recently, she has worked as Senior Political Advisor to Timor-Leste's Nobel Peace Prize Recipient, H.E. President Jose Ramos-Horta. In that role Ms. Saffin was Liaison Officer with the International Stablisation Forces (ISF) including the Australian Troops deployed from 3RAR to Timor-Leste, and the National Police Forces from deploying countries. Ms. Saffin was elected as Member for Page at the 2007 federal election, and is a member of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade and Chair of the Trade Committee.

Mr. Savage is a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. A native of Donacloney, he was elected in 2007 to the Northern Ireland Assembly as an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) member for Upper Bann. He is the Chairman of the Upper Bann Unionist Association and Deputy Chairman of Agricultural and Rural Development Committee. Mr. Savage is also a member of the Craigavon Borough Council, the Drainage Council for Northern Ireland, the European Union Committee of Religions, the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the Regional Development Committee.

Mr. Shah is from a small village, Shahgram, Madyan in the Swat district of the North-West Frontier province of Pakistan. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree from Peshawar University in 1977-78, followed by a degree in Law from the University of Karachi in 1981. After practicing law in his village, Mr. Shah joined Intercooperation, a Swiss NGO working in Pakistan. He began his career with Intercooperation as Social Organisor and, after working for this organization for twelve years on different positions, finally acted as Head of the Programme.

Mr. Shah is from a small village, Shahgram, Madyan in the Swat district of the North-West Frontier province of Pakistan. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree from Peshawar University in 1977-78, followed by a degree in Law from the University of Karachi in 1981. After practicing law in his village, Mr. Shah joined Intercooperation, a Swiss NGO working in Pakistan. He began his career with Intercooperation as Social Organisor and, after working for this organization for twelve years on different positions, finally acted as Head of the Programme.

Mr. Shah is from a small village, Shahgram, Madyan in the Swat district of the North-West Frontier province of Pakistan. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree from Peshawar University in 1977-78, followed by a degree in Law from the University of Karachi in 1981. After practicing law in his village, Mr. Shah joined Intercooperation, a Swiss NGO working in Pakistan. He began his career with Intercooperation as Social Organisor and, after working for this organization for twelve years on different positions, finally acted as Head of the Programme.

Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, a veteran Pakistani politician, is a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and the current Chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao) (PPP(S)). He served as the Interior Minister of Pakistan from 2004 to 2007 besides which he has held a number of portfolios in the Federal cabinet including Minister for Water and Power, Minister for Kashmir Affairs & Northern Areas and States & Frontier Regions, Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination, and Minister for Defence Production.

He has served as the chief executive of the North West Frontier Province (now known as the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) twice having been elected as the Chief Minister in 1988 and then again in 1994. Prior to this he has also served as a member in the Provincial Cabinet of the NWFP as Minister for Industries, Minerals, Local Government and Rural Development.

In 2007, he was nominated as Chairman of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Joint Peace Jirga in Kabul, an initiative to bring together politicians and community leaders to discuss peace and security between the two countries. Mr. Sherpao, being a pioneer advocate of this cause, had the honour of  being the first Chairman of this Jirga.

Since actively entering politics in 1976, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has been elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan four times and to the Provincial Assembly of the NWFP seven times from different constituencies. He has also served as Leader of the Opposition in the NWFP Assembly, having been elected to this position on three occasions. In addition to this he has also been nominated by his political party as Parliamentary Leader both in the National Assembly and in the NWFP Provincial Assembly on a number of occasions. He is currently a serving member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.

Having served as Provincial President of the Pakistan Peoples Party for over 20 years and then as the Central Senior Vice Chairman, he is now Chairman of his own faction of the PPP.

Prior to his political career, he has served in the Pakistan Army after having graduated from the Pakistan Military Academy with the 34th Long Course in 1965 and joining the Armoured Corps in the prestigious Probyn’s Horse Regiment. During his brief military career he served in a number of capacities and received distinctions in various courses. Mr. Sherpao has the honour of having served his Country by engaging in active battle in two wars in 1965 and then again in 1971. He ended his service of 12 years prematurely on the request of the then Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who asked him to join politics.

Mr Sherpao has had at least two attempts on his life by terrorists, both of which were suicide bomb attacks. He narrowly escaped both attempts but they left over 85 people dead and hundreds injured. He also lost his elder brother, the then NWFP Chief Minister, Hayat Muhammad Khan Sherpao to a terrorist bomb in 1973. Hayat Sherpao was a founding leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party and former Governor of the NWFP. His assassination is considered by all in Pakistan as a national tragedy.

Mr. Slaughter is the MP for Ealing Acton & Shepherds Bush and the Labour candidate for the proposed Hammersmith constituency. Mr. Slaughter fights hard for the local community because he was born, educated, brought up and has worked in this area all of his life. He was educated in local schools and studied English at Exeter University before continuing his education at the College of Law. Mr. Slaughter became a Barrister in 1993 and specialised in criminal, housing and personal injury law. He has represented a number of local authorities and housing associations and specialised in fighting on behalf of tenants against landlords. Elected to Hammersmith and Fulham Council in 1986, he became deputy leader in 1991 and leader in 1996. Mr. Slaughter's chief policy interests are international affairs, housing and education.

Mr. Sógor is a Member of the Committee on Education, Science, Youth and Sport, and the Committee on Equal Opportunities, GRUI. He was a member of the Romanian Parliament in Bucharest from 2000 - 2007. He was also previously an ecumenical advisor and advisor on external relations for the reformed diocese of Piatra Craiului. (1999 - 2000).

Before entering Parliament, Dr Starkey had a double career as a distinguished research scientist and as a politician in both local and national politics. Dr Starkey qualified as a biochemist and followed a career in medical research, leading her own research group in Oxford. She won a seat on Oxford City Council, was Chair of Finance for six years, and Council leader for three. From 1993-19977, she was the National Chair of the Local Government Information Unit, which represents over 120 Councils across the country. Dr Starkey has held a number of important Parliamentary posts since she was elected in 1997: Between 1999-2001 Dr Starkey was a member of the Modernisation of the House of Commons Select Committee; in 2002 she became PPS to Denis MacShane, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; in 2005, Dr. Starkey was made Chair of the Select Committee for Communities and Local Government - a post she still holds.