Aude Bolechala is an experienced bookseller specialising in children's books and has been managing Nomad Books in London since 2016.

A French native, she has extensive knowledge of the British and European book market and was shortlisted for the Individual Bookseller of the Year in the 2019 edition of the British Book Awards.

Catherine Mansfield is a British translator and communications professional. She has translated the work of authors including Jesús del Campo (Spain), Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto Araújo (Spain), Brenda Lozano (Mexico), Felipe Restrepo Pombo (Colombia) and Daniel Ferreira (Colombia). She is co-founder of a creative translation agency called ZigZag Translations, which she set up while living in Bogotá, Colombia, and now lives in London.

Hispanophile Gary McKeone is one of the two representatives nominated by BCLT who rotate to sit on the panel, so he knows the project well. He has worked in literature at London's South Bank Centre, with Field Day Theatre Company in Ireland and as Literature Director at Arts Council England. He has been a Board member of various literature organisations and currently works as Programme Director at St George’s House, Windsor Castle.

Helen Weir is a senior editor at Two Hoots, an illustrated imprint of Pan Macmillan. She has worked on award-winning books with the likes of Bethan Woollvin, Jake Alexander, Kate Hindley, Emily Sutton and Dapo Adeola. She is passionate about children's books and illustration.

Juliet Mabey is the co-founder of Oneworld Publications, an award-winning independent publisher focusing on narrative non-fiction, literary fiction, crime fiction and children’s titles. In 2009 Juliet set up Oneworld’s fiction list, and two of her titles have won the Booker Prize, with Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings winning in 2015 and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout in 2016, while Tayari Jones’ An American Marriage, won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2019.

A large part of her list consists of translated fiction from over twenty languages, and two of her novels in translation were shortlisted for the Booker International Prize, Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell) and Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright). Oneworld places a strong emphasis on showcasing a rich diversity of voices and stories from around the world, in English and in translation, for both its adult and children’s lists.