Chris Smith

Lord Chris Smith

Master of Pembroke College Cambridge, former Culture Secretary and former Chairman of the Environment Agency

Born in 1951, Chris was educated in Edinburgh and then Pembroke College, Cambridge, achieving a double first in English (and later a PhD on Wordsworth and Coleridge) and was also...

Professor Jagjit S. Chadha OBE

Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge

Jagjit Chadha specialises in monetary and macroeconomics, as well as financial history, and was the Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) from 2016-2024.  Prior to joining...

Ben Chu

Economics Editor of the BBC's Newsnight

Ben Chu is the Economics Editor of Newsnight, the BBC’s flagship current affairs nightly TV show. Previously he was with The Independent as Economics Editor and before that was chief leader writer. Ben...

Tabitha Goldstaub

Tabitha is an advisor to government, academia and business on all things AI. Tabitha is Exec Director of Innovate Cambridge ⁠— starting a conversation about an ambitious and inclusive innovation...

Dame Wendy Hall

Regius Professor of Computer Science

Dame Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng is Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International Engagement) and is an Executive Director of the Web Science Institute at the University...

Oliver Letwin

Rt Hon Sir Oliver Letwin

Former Member of Parliament, a Fellow of the Legatum Institute, senior adviser to the Faraday Institution, Vice President of the Great Britain China Centre, and a Visiting Professor at KCL and the University of Reading

Sir Oliver Letwin was the MP for West Dorset from 1997 to 2019. He held a number of shadow cabinet roles before 2010, including as Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow...

Dame Shan Morgan

Chair of the Royal Devon University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Dame Shan Morgan is Chair of the Royal Devon University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Between 2017 and 2021, Shan worked as the Welsh Government Permanent Secretary leading the Welsh Government...

Danny Quah

Professor Danny Quah

Dean and Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore

Danny Quah is Dean and Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS.  His current research takes an economic approach to world order, studying the supply and demand of...

Hetan Shah

Hetan Shah

Chief Executive, The British Academy

Hetan is chief executive of the British Academy, the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He is visiting professor at the Policy Institute, Kings College London. Hetan...

Julia Unwin

Dame Julia Unwin DBE

Former CEO of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Chair of the Commission on Civil Society, non-executive director of the Mears Group PLC, of Yorkshire Water and of the Financial Reporting Council

Dame Julia Unwin is an experienced non-executive, speaker, consultant and mentor. She was the Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation from 2007 until the end of 2016. Previously, she...

Professor Andy Westwood

Andy Westwood is Professor of Government Practice at the University of Manchester and a Director of the ESRC funded Productivity Institute. He has worked as an expert adviser to the...

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