Robert Winston

Baron Winston is known for his pioneering work in the study of fertility and has become a leading voice for science through presenting TV shows, including The Human Body, Child of Our Time and Walking with Cavemen.

Susan Greenfield

Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE is a scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords. 

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Here I Am, and the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and been translated into thirty-six languages. Jonathan Safran Foer teaches Creative Writing at New York University.

Michael Gove

Michael Gove is the Editor of The Spectator. As the former Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath and UK Government Cabinet Minister, he served in Cabinet across five government departments for more than a decade, from the 2010 Coalition government onwards. Image © House of Lords photography by Roger Harris

Jennifer Langer

Jennifer Langer is a poet, editor and founding director of Exiled Writers Ink, the organisation working with refugee and migrant writers.Her poetry collection The Search explores the complexity of her German Jewish English identity. She has edited five anthologies of exiled literature and holds a PhD from SOAS in exile and cultural memory.

Tim Franks

Tim Franks presents Newshour on the BBC World Services. He was previously a BBC reporter for almost two decades, including nine years as an award-winning foreign correspondent, travelling across Europe and the Middle East. He’s covered several major conflicts, from Iraq and Israel–Lebanon, to South Sudan and Ukraine. Tim won one of the most prestigious […]

Yakov Yadgar

Yaacov Yadgar is a professor at Oxford University whose research revolves around issues of political theology, nationalism, secularism, and tradition.

Rupert Younger

Rupert Younger is founder director of the University of Oxford’s Centre for Corporate Reputation, where he researches how reputations are created, sustained, destroyed and rebuilt.

Bee Wilson

Bee Wilson is a cook, food writer and journalist. She writes about food for a wide range of publications including The New York Times, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal (where she wrote the ‘Table Talk’ column). She also writes a monthly column for Scribehound Food.

Janet Wolff

Janet Wolff is Professor Emerita in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester. She is a renowned art historian and writer.

Rina Wolfson

Rina Wolfson was a popular Jewish educator and freelance writer.