Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein
Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein is the author of literary fiction and academic nonfiction
Nicholas Lander
Nicholas Lander is a restaurateur and writer and was the Financial Times restaurant critic from 1989 to 2022. Image © Jon Bradley
Jancis Robinson
Jancis Robinson has been writing and broadcasting about wine since 1975, and has been the FT’s wine correspondent since 1989.
Claudia Renton
Claudia Renton is a barrister who has also acted with the RSC and National Theatre.
Tessa Rajak
Professor Tessa Rajak is a British Historian and Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Reading. She is also a Senior Associate of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Edith Hall
Professor Edith Hall is one of Britain’s foremost classicists, having held posts at the universities of Royal Holloway, Cambridge, Durham, Reading, and Oxford. In 2015 she was awarded the Erasmus Medal of the European Academy, she is the first woman to win this award. Image ©Michael Wharley
Philip Rylands
Philip Rylands, is the President of The Society of the Four Arts, and is an art historian who for more than 37 years was responsible for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff spent fifteen years in advertising and publishing before writing her first novel, How I Live Now, which has sold 1.5 million copies in thirty-six territories. Her subsequent nine novels have been awarded or shortlisted for 25 international writing prizes.
Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirlwell is the author of three novels, His work has been translated into thirty languages. Image © Peter Marlow
Andrew Jaffe
Andrew Jaffe is Professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology at Imperial College, London.
Pedro Ferreira
Professor Pedro Ferreira is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford
Kate Williams
Professor Kate Williams author of biographies, history books and novels, writes for many newspapers and journals and has presented several acclaimed TV series.