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).

Simon Goldhill is the director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Professor in Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

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

Alcinda Honwana is a visiting professor of Anthropology and International Development at the Open University where she held a Chair in International Development from 2005-2010.

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.

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.

Roger Martin is the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management and the Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness.

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 and Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.