Anthony has been involved with The Death Penalty Project since its inception and has spearheaded the long-term support of Simons Muirhead & Burton for the organisation. A leading authority on domestic and international criminal law, Anthony has a wealth of high-profile court experience. He also sits as a Recorder of the Crown Court. Anthony is Chairman of the Board of the Royal Court Theatre and is a regular writer and broadcaster on legal affairs. He is a Council member of the all party organisation Justice. The Legal 500 ranks Anthony as a leader in his field, and the Chambers Guide describes him as "the criminal heartbeat of the firm...a calm authority".

Jane is currently Director of Communications and Change at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Jane has over twenty years' experience of working in strategic communications at national and international level, public and private sector, on a wide range of topics. She has human rights experience from Amnesty International British Section, where she was responsible for government relations between 1989 and 1994, and from the Bar Human Rights Group when she worked as a communications adviser to the General Council of the Bar for several years. In 2004 she co-authored a report on international human rights for the think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research.

Philip is a founder director and company secretary of The Death Penalty Project and a founder trustee of the Charitable Trust. He is a partner in the charity and social enterprise department of Bates Wells & Braithwaite London LLP. Philip advises charities and social enterprises, other voluntary organisations and commercial bodies on charity, corporate and commercial law. He is General Editor of the Charities Administration Service (Jordan Publishing) and co-author of The Fundraisers' Guide to the Law (Directory of Social Change) and serves on the Institute of Fundraising Standards Committee. Philip has an active interest in human rights and is a former member of the Law Society's International Human Rights Committee. He has conducted monitoring missions in Turkey for the Law Society and for the Kurdish Human Rights Project.

Razi is a founder director of The Death Penalty Project. He is a specialist in media and press law and commercial litigation. He has twenty years' experience of dispute resolution on behalf of both claimants and defendants, and has acted in some of the most high profile media litigation cases of recent years. Razi has appeared on TV and radio as an expert on legal affairs and is a CEDR–trained mediator. He is described by the Chambers Guide as a "punchy, inventive and positive lawyer" who manages to "bring a touch of flair to his cases".

Keir was appointed as the Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales in 2008. He was formerly Joint Head of Chambers of Doughty Street Chambers. His main areas of practice have been human rights, international law, judicial review, extradition, criminal law, police law and media law, and he has written extensively on human rights and criminal law. In 2007 the Chambers & Partners Directory named him QC of the Year in the field of human rights and public law, and in 2005 he won the Bar Council's Sydney Elland Goldsmith award for his outstanding contribution to pro bono work, in particular in challenging the death penalty throughout the Caribbean and also in Uganda, Kenya and Malawi. From 2003 to 2008 Keir was the human rights advisor to the Policing Board in Northern Ireland, working to ensure that the Police Service fully complies with its obligations under the Human Rights Act of 1998. He writes and lectures extensively on criminal law and human rights. He is a founder director of The Death Penalty Project.

Edward specialises in criminal law, public law and international human rights law. He was awarded a CBE in 2008, and he was the winner of the Silk of the Year award in 2005 and the Times Justice Human Rights Award in 1998. He frequently appears in the Privy Council in cases involving the constitutions of the Commonwealth, Caribbean, death penalty appeals and extradition: he has won numerous important appeals in the House of Lords and the Privy Council establishing rights for life sentence prisoners and prisoners on death row. He has also appeared frequently in the European Court of Human Rights.  Edward has been called to the Bar in numerous jurisdictions, including Belize, Grenada and St Vincent, and has been granted rights of audience to appear in cases in Hong Kong, Trinidad and Tobago, St Lucia, Bahamas and the British Virgin Islands. He has represented death row prisoners in the Caribbean at all levels - at sentencing hearings in the local courts, in the Court of Appeal of Belize and the Eastern Caribbean and the Privy Council. Edward gives frequent lectures and seminars and provides sentencing training to lawyers in the Caribbean. He has been a Trustee since the inception of the Trust in 2005.

James Guthrie specialises in a broad range of appellate work in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and he frequently undertakes pro bono work in Caribbean and Privy Council cases, often in death row cases. His human rights work has included references to the various international bodies, including the United Nations Human Rights Committee and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He has considerable experience of litigation in Commonwealth jurisdictions, both in an advisory capacity and as an advocate, and has been called to the Bars of the Turks and Caicos Islands, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, St Christopher & Nevis, Grenada and Bermuda. James also sits as a Recorder trying civil and criminal cases, and he is also a Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple. He has been a Trustee since the inception of the Trust in 2005.

Sarah has been a partner with Littlejohn LLP, Chartered Accountants, since 1997 and  heads up the firm’s charities unit, having worked with not-for-profit clients for over 15 years.  Sarah develops marketing strategies for the unit, contributes to in-house seminars and publications and actively manages a portfolio of clients. Her particular area of expertise is the audit of humanitarian aid projects both in the UK and overseas. Sarah has spent periods as both a trustee and governor for a number of organisations, including the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, Doorstep, Gainsborough Primary School and Newham Sixth Form College, and is currently a director of the non profit regeneration company, Renaisi. Sarah became a trustee of The DPP Charitable Trust and head of its Finance Committee in 2007.

Simon has for several years been both a key adviser to and ardent supporter of the Death Penalty Project, and he routinely advises on a wide range of fundraising and public profile aspects affecting the organisation’s work.  Simon is a commercial lawyer specialising principally in non-contentious media work, and is recognised by both the Chambers Guide and the Legal 500 as a key practitioner in his field.  Simon also lectures in media studies on a part-time basis at Warwick University.  His advice to the charity clients of Simons Muirhead & Burton, very frequently given on a pro bono basis, has been a cornerstone of his practice since qualification, and those clients include Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Compassion in World Farming.

Afua Hirsch is the Guardian's legal affairs correspondent, writing news and analysis for print and is the editor of the Guardians law website at guardian.co.uk/law. She writes a regular blog on law and justice and human rights, and appears regularly in radio and TV broadcasts, and speaks widely on the law, media and diversity. Afua has practiced as a barrister in criminal defence and teaches public law, constitutional and human rights law. She continues to engage in human rights and development issues in the developing world, having worked in West Africa before training as a lawyer. She now works with young people through mentoring and education programmes with an emphasis on diversity and increasing access to law and the media.