Peter Pomerantsev
Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, studying twenty-first century information manipulation and how to fix it.
Antony Polonsky
Antony Polonsky is emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw.
David Roskies
David G. Roskies is the Sol and Evelyn Henkind Chair in Yiddish Literature and Culture and professor of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Gavin Esler
Gavin Esler is an award-winning broadcaster, novelist and journalist. He is the author of five novels and two non-fiction books, The United States of Anger, and Lessons from the Top, based on personal encounters with leaders from Bill Clinton and Angela Merkel to Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, and even cultural leaders such as Dolly Parton.
Kavita Puri
Kavita Puri is an award-winning journalist and radio broadcaster. Her series Partition Voices for BBC Radio 4 won the Royal Historical Society’s Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize.
Itamar Srulovich
Itamar Srulovich is one half of the couple behind Honey & Co., a Middle Eastern restaurant in London which he runs with his wife, Sarit Packer. He is also the author of Honey & Co: Food from the Middle East.
Josh Katz
Josh Katz is the co-owner and chef behind the London restaurant Berber & Q, as well as the Shawarma Bar and a kiosk in Spitalfields market. Josh worked at Ottolenghi, Galvin Bistrot de Luxe and Zest before opening Berber&Q in 2015.
Adam Feinstein
Adam Feinstein is an author, translator, journalist and Hispanist. His book A History of Autism: conversations with the pioneers received widespread praise. In 1998, Feinstein founded an international autism magazine, Looking Up. He also runs monthly online autism conferences on the Awares conference site for Autism Cymru, as well as the annual online Awares conference.
Keith Stuart
Keith Stuart is an author and journalist who covers video games and digital culture for the Guardian, while contributing to magazines such as Red, Esquire, Empire and Frieze. His first novel A Boy Made of Blocks, based on his own experiences of parenthood and autism was a bestseller.
Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon is a writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts; winner of the National Book Award; and an activist in LGBT rights, mental health, and the arts.
Jem Lester
Jem Lester is a journalist and the author of the award-winning Shtum. He has two children, one of whom is profoundly autistic. He lives in London with his partner, Catherine and her two children.
Yuval Noah Harari
Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the series Sapiens: A Graphic History and Unstoppable Us, and Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI.