Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

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

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.

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.

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.

David Runciman is Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge and presenter of the podcast Talking Politics

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).

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).

Managing Editor of the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog and Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis 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.