Monica Bohm-Duchen

Monica Bohm-Duchen is a London-based art historian and the founding director of Insiders/Outsiders, an ongoing celebration of the contribution made by refugees from Nazi Europe to British culture. The project also gives voice to the responses of the ‘second generation’ – and beyond – to their families’ complex histories.
George Prochnik

George Prochnik’s essays, poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals.
Fania Oz-Salzberger

Fania Oz-Salzberger is an Israeli writer, history professor and public intellectual. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Haifa Law School.
Benjamin Markovits

Benjamin Markovits is the author of eleven novels. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews on subject ranging from the Romantics to American sports in the Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review and The New York Times. He lives in London and teaches creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. Image © Kat Green
Steven Zipperstein

Steven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He is the author and editor of ten books with his last book – Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History – translated into Hebrew, French, and Romanian. Zipperstein is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts […]
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.