The Board
Seeking answers outside the box

Yevgenia Albats
Editor in Chief and CEO of New Times, Russia
Yevgenia Albats is the Editor in Chief and CEO of the Russian political weekly New Times as well as an anchor with Echo Moskva broadcasting.
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Anne Applebaum
Journalist at The Atlantic and Professor of Practice at LSE Institute of Global Affairs
Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian. She is also Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics’ Institute of Global Affairs where she runs Arena, a program on disinformation and 21st century propaganda.
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Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
Co-founder and Publishing Director of Cassava Republic Press and the co-founder of Tapestry Consulting
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf is co-founder and publishing director of Cassava Republic Press, one of Africa’s leading publishing houses, and the co-founder of Tapestry Consulting, a boutique research and training company focused on gender, sexuality and transformational issues in Nigeria.
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Professor Steven Connor
Director of CRASSH at the University of Cambridge
Professor of English at Cambridge University since 2012, Steven Connor is Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).
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Petina Gappah
Writer and lawyer
Petina Gappah is a widely translated Zimbabwean writer and an international trade and investment lawyer
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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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Eva Wolfangel
Journalist, speaker and moderator
Eva Wolfangel is a journalist, speaker and moderator, named European Science Writer of the Year in 2018 by the Association of British Science Writers
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