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Shami is a barrister, human rights campaigner and Labour Peer who has written and broadcast widely over recent decades. She was Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales from 2016 to 2020 and Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) from 2003 to 2016. In 2012, she carried the Olympic Flag at the London Games and served as a panelist on the Leveson Inquiry into the ethics and practice of the media. She is the author of three books, ON LIBERTY (2014), OF WOMEN (2017) and HUMAN RIGHTS - The Case for the Defence (May 2024).

Peter is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He is also Professor of Silk Roads Studies and a Bye-Fellow at King's College, Cambridge. His breathtaking syntheses of global (and, now, environmental) history have been international best-sellers and consistently attract critical raves. His most recent book, The Earth Transformed was The Times History Book of the Year 2023 and, prior to that, The Silk Roads was the Sunday Times Book of the Decade 2010-2019.

Misha is the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, one of Austria’s leading advanced research institutes. A former BBC Central Europe Correspondent who covered the revolutions in Eastern Europe and the wars in the former Yugoslavia, Misha has written extensively about the geo-politics of cyber security and organised crime. His best-selling non-fiction book, McMafia - about the globalisation of organised crime – was adapted into a major TV drama series on BBC. Misha is also the author of an acclaimed one-volume history of the modern Balkans. He has taught as a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, Columbia University and University College London.

Sally is an award-winning journalist and photographer currently focused on migration, conflict and humanitarian crises. Her first book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route, was published in 2022 and won the 2022 Orwell Prize, Michel Deon Prize, overall Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, the 2024 Premio Terzani, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. Sally’s work has been published in the Financial Times Magazine, TIME, BBC, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, National Geographic, NPR and the Economist, among many other outlets.

Christina is Chief Foreign Correspondent at The Sunday Times and one of Britain’s leading foreign journalists as well as a bestselling author. She has won Europe’s top war reporting prize, the Prix Bayeux, and been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year six times. She has authored ten books including co-writing the global bestseller I Am Malala with Malala Yousafzai. In particular, she has always focused on what happens to women in war, and collected accounts of sexual violence in conflict from all over the world for her recent book, Our Bodies, Their Battlefields (2020). The book was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, the Bailie Gifford Prize and the Kapuscinski award. Christina was made an OBE in 2013.

Noel is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and a member of the British Academy. He has published widely on intellectual, cultural and social history, and has edited Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan and his correspondence. His works on Balkan history include Bosnia: A Short History; Kosovo: A Short History; Agents of Empire; and Rebels, Believers, Survivors: Studies in the History of the Albanians. He is President of the Anglo-Albanian Association, a Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, and an Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania. He was knighted in 2014 for services to scholarship, journalism, and European history.

The founder of National Poetry Day and the international Forward Prizes for Poetry, William is Britain’s “Mr. Poetry”. Several years ago, seeking to share his love of poetry with the public, he set up poetry “pharmacies” in literary festivals around the UK, only to find people queuing for hours to receive his personalized prescriptions -- poems selected and read aloud by him to salve their ailments. Wanting to widen access to his “prescriptions”, he published The Poetry Pharmacy, a series of poetry anthologies, now in their third, best-selling edition.

Olivia was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2023. Her debut novel, Sympathy, was a finalist for the Salerno European Book Award and Collyer Bristow Prize in 2017. Exposure, an extended essay on anxiety and fiction in the digital age, was named an Irish Times, Evening Standard and White Review Book of the Year for 2018. Her follow-up novel, Asylum Road, was shortlisted for the Encore Award and the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize in 2021. A third novel, The Termite Queen, will be published next year. Her writing has also appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Financial Times, the Guardian and Paris Review.