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.

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for the Washington Post 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.

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.

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).

Petina Gappah is a widely translated Zimbabwean writer and an international trade and investment lawyer

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

Eva Wolfangel is a journalist, speaker and moderator, named European Science Writer of the Year in 2018 by the Association of British Science Writers