Jason Frantzen
Jason Frantzen began his collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron in 2005. From 2006 to 2010 he worked between Miami and New York to oversee 1111 Lincoln Road and to participate in the design of the Pérez Art Museum. He became an Associate of the firm in 2011, and a Partner in 2014.
Hannah Rothschild
Hannah Rothschild CBE is an award-winning writer and documentary film director. She is a former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery, and she is a Trustee of Waddesdon Manor. Hannah’s novel The Improbability of Love won the 2016 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction.
Richard Cooke
Richard Cooke is an internationally based foreign correspondent and author. His work has appeared in many publications and been selected for the Best of Longform and Best Australian Essays. He is a former Columnist of the Year, and won the June Andrews Award for Arts Journalism and the Walkley Award for Feature Writing in 2023.
Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, writer, host and executive producer of Closer To Truth, the PBS/public television series on cosmos, consciousness and meaning (God / philosophy of religion) that presents leading scientists, philosophers and creative thinkers discussing fundamental questions.
Michael Pye
Michael Pye’s thirteen books are translated into fifteen languages and one Hollywood movie. He has written novels about whores, killers and thieves, but also histories of the show business, the city of New York, the North Sea and most recently Antwerp: the Glory Years (Penguin/Allen Lane). Image © Alain Six
Rupert Swyer
Rupert Swyer is an independent scholar, translator, and journalist. He received his BA from Oxford University. His translations include the works of notable French philosophers, sociologists, and historians. He lives in Paris.
Ardyn Halter
Ardyn Halter is best known for his painting, printmaking and stained-glass. He has designed and made stained glass windows for the National Genocide Memorial in Rwanda, St Johns Wood Synagogue London, Alyth Gardens and Highgate Synagogues, and for Cambridge University.
Michèle Roberts
Michèle Roberts has published novels, poetry, memoirs, short stories and essays. She is Professor Emeritus at UEA. She regularly broadcasts on radio and reviews for the TLS. She is half French and half English. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Image © Viv Pegram
Elsbeth Lindner
Elsbeth Lindner has had a distinguished career in British publishing, notably with Methuen, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and The Women’s Press. She was a member of the Orange Prize management committee and editor of newbooks magazine. She now lives in the USA.
Tony Shaw
Tony Shaw is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Hertfordshire. He specialises in the history of film and international relations.
Giora Goodman
Dr Giora Goodman is Senior Lecturer at Kinneret College, chairs the department of Multidisciplinary Studies, and specializes in the history of government media control, propaganda and censorship in Mandatory Palestine and in Israel.
Amal Elsana Alh’jooj
Amal founded several NGOs, including the Arab-Jewish Centre for Equality, Economic Empowerment and Cooperation. She is the recipient of many international prizes, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2006), included in Genius 100 Visionaries of the Future (2017), and awarded the New Israel Fund’s Human Rights Award (2013). Image ©Patricia Z. Smith