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.
Francesca Klug
Professor Francesca Klug OBE is a Visiting Professor at LSE Human Rights and an Advisory Board member of Sheffield Hallam’s Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice.
Robert Elms
Robert Elms is a broadcaster and writer, best known for his radio show on BBC Radio London.
Asaf Siniver
Asaf Siniver is Professor of International Security at the University of Birmingham. He specialises in conflict resolution, international mediation, diplomacy, Foreign Policy Analysis, contemporary US foreign policy, and the politics, diplomacy, and history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg lectures on the Hebrew Bible and rabbinic thought at academic, psychoanalytic, and Jewish educational institutions around the world.
John Thornhill
John Thornhill is the Innovation Editor at the Financial Times writing a weekly column on the impact of technology.