Mark Binder

Mark Binder is an Audie Award nominated storyteller and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for Family Literature.

John Rentoul

John Rentoul is Chief Political Commentator for The Independent, Visiting Professor at King’s College, London and the author of an acclaimed biography of Tony Blair.

Jon Davis

Professor Jon Davis OBE is Director of the Strand Group at King’s College London. His research and work focuses on the contemporary history of British central government.

Carmen Callil

Carmen Callil founded the Virago Press in 1972. At Virago, amongst other business and editorial aspects of the company, she was responsible for the creation and development of the Virago Modern Classics list.

Peter Conradi

Peter Conradi is English Professor Emeritus at Kingston University and has been visiting fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, and research fellow at University College London. He is an author and journalist, and is known as the official biographer of Iris Murdoch, whose essays and letters he also collected and edited, in separate volumes.

Armand D’Angour

Armand D’Angour is Professor of Classics at Jesus College, Oxford University. He researches and writes about the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, with a focus on ancient music and Greek and Latin lyric poetry.

Martin Rees

Martin Rees is Astronomer Royal, an acclaimed author, and has been Master of Trinity College and Director of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University.

A. D. Miller

A.D. Miller’s first novel Snowdrops was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. As Moscow correspondent of The Economist he covered the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine. He is currently the magazine’s Culture Editor & is based in London. Image © Paul Rider

Robert Rozett

Dr. Robert Rozett is Senior Historian in the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem. He is the author of Conscripted Slaves and co-editor of After So Much Pain and Anguish.

Dinah Rose

Dinah Rose KC (born 16 July 1965) is a British barrister. She has been President of Magdalen College, Oxford since 2020. A member of Blackstone Chambers, she was named Barrister of the Year in The Lawyer Awards 2009. In 2016, she was appointed a Deputy Judge of the High Court

John Dyson

Lord Dyson was a Justice of the UK Supreme Court from 2010 until 2012 and the Master of the Rolls and Head of the Civil Justice System in England and Wales from 2012 until 2016.

Derek Penslar

Derek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, and was previously the Samuel Zacks Professor of European Jewish history at the University of Toronto. He is a historian of modern European Jewry, Zionism, and the state of Israel.