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.
Cate Haste
Cate Haste is an author, biographer, historian and documentary film director.
Hella Pick
Hella Pick CBE was born in Vienna and came to the UK on a Kindertransport. Specialising in foreign affairs she was on the staff of the Guardian from 1961- 1997. Hella was the author of Simon Wiesenthal – A Life in Search of Justice, and Guilty Victim – Austria from the Holocaust to Haider.
Lucy Silver
Lucy Silver was born in Glasgow, studied literature, philosophy, art history and psychology, trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and counselled university students. She is the Co-President of the Jewish Literary Foundation.
Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips is a journalist, broadcaster and author. Her weekly column, which currently appears in The Times of London, has been published over the years in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Mail. She also writes for the Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News Syndicate, and is a regular panellist on BBC Radio’s The Moral Maze.
Fergus Butler-Gallie
The Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie is a writer and priest who has ministered in parishes in Liverpool and Central London. Image © Mark Rusher.
Naomi Games
Naomi Games has written and illustrated many books for children. Since the death of her father in 1996, she has organized numerous exhibitions on various aspects of his work and of his contempories.
Lawrence Freedman
Sir Lawrence Freedman is Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College London.
Sanam Vakil
Dr Sanam Vakil is the director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. Her expertise spans Iranian and Gulf politics, regional security dynamics, and US foreign policy, with a particular focus on the evolving strategic landscape of the Middle East and its global connectivity.
Jack Straw
Rt Hon Jack Straw is one of three senior Ministers to remain in Cabinet throughout the 1997 to 2010 Labour Governments under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was Foreign Secretary (2001-2006), Home Secretary (1997-2001), Leader of the Commons (2006-7), and Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary (2007-10).
Nazenin Ansari
Nazenin Ansari is a British-Iranian journalist and is the Managing Editor of Kayhan-London (Persian) and Kayhan-Life (English) independent media outlets focusing on news and culture in Iran, and the Middle East. She is a member of Chatham House and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.