Irving Finkel
Dr Irving Finkel is Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian Script, Languages and Cultures at The British Museum
Mohammad Gharipour
Mohammad Gharipour is an ACSA Distinguished Professor and professor and director of the Architecture Program at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Tim Marshall
Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience.
Kapka Kassabova
Kapka Kassabova is a prize-winning writer of non-fiction and poetry.
Rana Mitter
Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford.
Bill Browder
Bill Browder is founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management and was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005. Since 2009, when his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was murdered in prison after uncovering a $230 million fraud by Russian government officials, Browder has been leading a campaign to expose Russia’s corruption and human rights abuses.
Matthew D’Ancona
Matthew D’Ancona is a journalist and political columnist.
John Lloyd
John Lloyd is a journalist and is contributing editor to the Financial Times where he has been Labour Editor, Industrial Editor, East European Editor, and Moscow Bureau Chief.
James Harding
James Harding is the editor and founder of Tortoise Media. He was Director of BBC News and before that was Editor of the Times.
Adam Kay
Adam Kay is a BAFTA-winning, multi-million-bestselling author, TV writer and performer.
Rachel Clarke
Dr Rachel Clarke is a practising palliative care doctor, former television journalist and the author of four Sunday Times bestselling books.
Susie Orbach
Susie Orbach is a psychoanalyst & writer.