The Board
Seeking answers outside the box

Professor Simon Goldhill (Chair of Prize Board)
Professor of Greek Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge
Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
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Professor Alcinda Honwana
Strategic Director at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa at the London School of Economics
Alcinda Honwana is Strategic Director at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa and Centennial Professor at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics
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Peter Kadas
Trustee of the Kadas Prize Foundation
Peter Kadas is a Trustee of the Kadas Prize Foundation. He founded and led CS First Boston Budapest from 1989 to 1995. In 1995 he co-founded Renaissance Capital in Moscow before moving to MC Securities in London in 1996.
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Professor Roger Martin
Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto
Roger Martin is Professor Emeritus and former Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
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Professor Riccardo Rebonato
Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School
Riccardo Rebonato is Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School. Previously he was Global Head of Rates and FX Research at PIMCO. He also served as Global Head of Market Risk, Global Head of Research and Head of Complex IR Derivatives Trading at several UK-based international institutions.
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Professor David Runciman
Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge
David Runciman is Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge and presenter of the podcast Talking Politics
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Professor Diane Coyle
Bennett Professor of Public Policy at Cambridge University
Diane Coyle is the author of numerous books including GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History, The Economics of Enough, and The Soulful Science (all Princeton University Press).
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Professor Paul Gilroy
Professor of English at Kings College London
Professor Gilroy joined Kings College London as Professor of English in September 2012, having previously been Giddens Professor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics (2005-2012), Charlotte Marian Saden Professor of African American Studies and Sociology at Yale (1999-2005) and Professor of Cultural Studies and Sociology at Goldsmiths College (1995-1999).
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E.J. Graff
Journalist, editor and author
Managing Editor of the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog and Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University
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Professor Ira Katznelson
Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University
Ira Katznelson is an Americanist whose work has straddled comparative politics and political theory as well as political and social history. He returned in 1994 to Columbia, where he had been assistant and then associate professor from 1969 to 1974.
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