Maciej Hen
Maciej Hen was born in 1955 in Warsaw. He graduated from the Cinematography Department at the Film School in Lodz. In the nineties he was a Lauder Foundation volunteer. As a prose writer he debuted in 2004 with Według niej, recently published in English translation as According to Her. Image © Albert Zawada Agencja Gazeta
Eriko Nagayama
Japanese born Eriko Nagayama is a highly acclaimed violinist, graduated in 2018 from her MA in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of György Pauk with Distinction, DipRAM for an outstanding Final Recital, the Marjorie Bunty Lempfert Award, and the Moir Carnegie Prize.
Helen Wallace
Helen Wallace is Head of Music at the Barbican and previously was Executive & Artistic Director of Kings Place. Before becoming Programme Director at Kings Place, she was a writer, critic and broadcaster, and editor of BBC Music Magazine and The Strad Magazine. She is author of Boosey & Hawkes, the publishing story.
Gyorgy Pauk
Recognised as one of the leading violinist of his generation, György Pauk was born in Budapest, Hungary and received his musical education at the renown Franz Liszt Music Academy. He is considered one of the most authentic Bartok interpreter and expert of Bartok’s music worldwide
Malcolm Rifkind
Sir Malcolm Rifkind served in the Governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major for an uninterrupted 18 years. He held four Cabinet posts including Minister of Defence and Foreign Secretary. From 2010-15 he was Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee which has oversight of MI6, MI5 and GCHQ.
Anna Reid
Anna Reid is a historian and journalist. She was The Economist’s Kyiv correspondent from 1993-’95, and ran the foreign policy programme at the London-based think tank Policy Exchange from 2002-6. She is a trustee of the Ukrainian Institute London.
York Membery
York Membery is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Sunday Times and BBC History Magazine. York, who lives in London, has a History PhD from Maastricht University.
Maurice Blik
Maurice Blik has lived in England since being liberated from Bergen Belsen, where he was taken as a small child from his birthplace, Amsterdam. He works in the UK and USA where he was awarded residency by the US Government as ‘a person of extraordinary artistic ability’.
Wendy Joseph
Until her retirement in 2022, Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC was a judge at the Old Bailey, sitting on criminal cases, trying mainly allegations of murder and other homicide. When she moved to the Old Bailey in 2012 she was the only woman amongst sixteen judges, and only the third woman ever to hold a […]
Andrew Louth
Andrew Louth is Professor Emeritus of Patristic and Byzantine Studies at Durham University and an archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Sybil Sheridan
Sybil Sheridan has written and edited book and articles mostly in the area of women’s studies and interfaith dialogue. She is a freelance Rabbi currently working with the Newcastle Reform Synagogue.
Elena Narinskaya
Elena Narinskaya is an academic researcher in Abrahamic religions and a founding director of Women’s Ministries initiative, an Orthodox Christian educational initiative open to everyone.