[simple_tooltip content=’Anne Applebaum is a columnist for the Washington Post and a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, where she has just launched a project on 21st century disinformation…’]Anne Applebaum[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Tina Brown is an award-winning journalist, editor, author, and founder of the Women in the World summits. Between 1979 and 2001, she was editor-in-chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and authored the 2007 best-selling biography of the Princess of Wales, The Diana Chronicles…’]Tina Brown[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Helen Castor is a historian of the middle ages and sixteenth century and a Bye-Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She is the author of Blood & Roses: The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century, She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, and most recently Joan of Arc: A History…’]Helen Castor[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Nicholas Cullinan took up his position as the Director of the National Portrait Gallery in spring 2015 following his role as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.’]Nicholas Cullinan[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’British writer Allie Esiri’s latest poetry anthology A Poem for Every Night of the Year (Macmillan) is the bestselling poetry book of 2016 and has been shortlisted for the Independent Bookshop Week Book award 2017. Her new anthology, A Poem for Every Day of the Year (Macmillan) comes out September 7th 2017.’]Allie Esiri[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Sebastian Faulks was born and brought up in Newbury, Berkshire. He worked in journalism before starting to write books. He is best known for the French trilogy, The Girl at the Lion d Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (1989-1997) and is also the author of a triple biography, The Fatal Englishman (1996)’]Sebastian Faulks[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Amanda Foreman is the author of the prize-winning best sellers, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and A World on Fire, A Epic History of Two Nations Divided. She is currently a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Her latest work is the BBC documentary series, The Ascent of Woman…’]Amanda Foreman[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical
works which have been international bestsellers. The prizes she has won include the
Wolfson Award for History and the Norton Medlicott Medal of the Historical Association.
She has been President of English PEN, chairman of the Society of Authors, and chairman of
the Crime Writers Association….’]Antonia Fraser[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Daisy Goodwin’s work as a TV producer and presenter includes Reader I Married Him, Bookworm and The Nation’s Favourite Poems; she is also the creator of Grand Designs and wrote the script for ITVs Victoria. She has edited numerous poetry anthologies, including the bestselling 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life, and is the author of Silver River, a memoir as well as two novels…’]Daisy Goodwin[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Michael Gove is Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He was elected to Parliament in 2005 as member for Surrey Heath. In December of that year he was appointed Shadow Housing Minister and then in June 2007 as Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families…’]Michael Gove [/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Geordie Greig became the editor of The Mail on Sunday in April 2012. He was formerly Editorial Director of The London Evening Standard, The Independent and The Independent on Sunday and prior to that, was editor of Tatler for 10 years.’]Geordie Greig[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Miriam Gross was born in Jerusalem and came to this country at the age of ten. She was educated at Dartington Hall School and at St Annes College, Oxford, where she read English. She worked at the Observer newspaper as deputy literary editor and Womens editor from 1965 to 1984…’]Miriam Gross[/simple_tooltip]
James Harding
[simple_tooltip content=’Robert Harris is the author of eleven bestselling novels: the
Cicero Trilogy – Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator – Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii,
The Ghost, The Fear Index, and An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and Conclave…’]Robert Harris[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Dr Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. Research Fellow at Kings College London and tutor for Cambridge Universitys Institute of Continuing Education her first book, Helen of Troy, Goddess, Princess, Whore has been translated into 10 languages..’]Bettany Hughes[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Howard Jacobson, novelist and critic, was born in Manchester and lectured in English Literature until the publication of his first novel Coming from Behind in 1983. He has written fifteen novels and five works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse award for Comic Writing in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. ‘]Howard Jacobson[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Simon Jenkins is a journalist and author. He writes weekly columns for the Guardian and the London Evening Standard. He has edited the Evening Standard and The Times and was chairman of the National Trust from 2008-14.’]Simon Jenkins[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’New York Times best-selling author Dylan Jones has written twenty books on subjects as diverse as music and politics and fashion and photography. He has been an editor at The Observer, The Sunday Times, i-D, The Face and Arena, a columnist for The Guardian and The Independent, and is currently the Editor-In-Chief of GQ…’]Dylan Jones[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Kwasi Kwarteng has been the Conservative Member of Parliament for Spelthorne since 2010. Born in London in 1975, Kwasi was educated at Eton College, where he was a Kings Scholar, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his BA in Classics and History. After a year as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University, Kwasi returned to Cambridge to complete his PhD in History.’]Kwasi Kwarteng[/simple_tooltip]
Anton Lesser
[simple_tooltip content=’Natalie Livingstone was born and raised in London. She graduated with a first class degree in history from Christs College, Cambridge in 1998…’]Natalie Livingstone[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Anne McElvoy is Senior Editor of the Economist, and was its global Policy Editor from 2010-16. She also writes a weekly politics column for the Evening Standard and was previously Executive Editor. A presenter of Start the Week on BBC Radio4, the Moral Maze and Free Thinking for the BBC, Anne is an experienced live broadcaster and series maker. …’]Anne McElvoy[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels for adults, as well as The Daydreamer, a children’s novel illustrated by Anthony Browne. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award…’]Ian McEwan[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Dr. Dambisa Moyo is a pre-eminent thinker, who influences key decision-makers in strategic investment and public policy. She is respected for her unique perspectives, her balance of contrarian thinking with measured judgment, and her ability to turn economic insight into investible ideas….’]Dambisa Moyo[/simple_tooltip]
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[simple_tooltip content=’Frances Osborne is the author of three books, all published in the UK and US. Her first biography, Lillas Feast (2004), has been translated into six languages. Her second biography, The Bolter (2008), was a Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller. Her first novel, Park Lane, was short listed for the Historical Crime Writers Assocation/Goldsboro Books First Novel Award.’]Frances Osborne[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Catherine Ostler is Contributing Editor at the Daily Mail. She has been Editor of Tatler, Editor of ES Magazine at the Evening Standard, and Editor of Times Weekend…’]Catherine Ostler[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Yana Peel is CEO of the Serpentine Galleries, one of Londons
leading contemporary arts institutions championing free thinking and free access for all.
She is also Chair of the Intelligence Squared Group, the global forum for live debate which
she previously ran…’]Yana Peel[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Stephen Pollard has been Editor of the Jewish Chronicle since 2008 and writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph and Express. His biography of David Blunkett, was published in December 2004…’]Stephen Pollard[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’John Preston is a former Arts Editor of the Evening Standard and the Sunday Telegraph. For ten years he was the Sunday Telegraph’s television critic and one of its chief feature writers. He is the author of a travel book and four novels, including The Dig.’]John Preston[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’David Reynolds is Professor of International History at Cambridge
and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of eleven books, including In Command
of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War (Penguin) – awarded the
Wolfson Prize – and, most recently, The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth
Century (Simon & Schuster), which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize…’]David Reynolds[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Prof Andrew Roberts has written thirteen books, including Eminent Churchillians, Salisbury: Victorian Titan, Napoleon and Wellington, Waterloo, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, Masters and Commanders, The Storm of War and Napoleon the Great, the last of which won the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon in Paris and became a New York Times bestseller.’]Andrew Roberts[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Ruth Rogers was born in the USA and educated at Bennington College. She studied Typography and Graphic Design at The London College of Printing before starting work in the art department of Penguin Books. She then spent five years in Paris, with her husband Richard Rogers, working on the Centre Pompidou…’]Ruth Rogers[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Hannah Rothschild is a writer, filmmaker and company director. She serves on boards of various philanthropic trusts and museums. Her biography, The Baroness, was published in 2012 and her first novel, The Improbability of Love, came out in 2015…’]Hannah Rothschild[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Lord Rothschild is Chairman of the Rothschild Foundation in the United Kingdom and RIT Capital Partners, the investment trust company quoted on the London Stock Exchange. The Balfour Declaration was addressed to the second Lord Rothschild…’]Lord Rothschild[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Hallie Rubenhold is a critically acclaimed author, social
historian, broadcaster and historical consultant for TV and film. She has written two works
of non-fiction Lady Worsley’s Whim which became the 2015 BBC 2 drama, The Scandalous Lady W
and The Covent Garden Ladies, which served as the inspiration for the ITV Encore series,
Harlots….’]Hallie Rubenhold[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Simon Schama is Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and the author of 17 books including Rembrandts Eyes and Hang-Ups – Essays on Painting (Mostly). His art criticism for the New Yorker won the National Magazine award and his fifty odd documentaries…’]Simon Schama[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Dr Simon Sebag Montefiore is a bestselling prizewinning historian and novelist whose books are published in 48 languages. He is author of the Moscow Trilogy novels, Sashenka, One Night in Winter (which won Political Novel of the Year Prize and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize) and Red Sky at Noon…’]Simon Sebag Montefiore[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Radosław (Radek) Sikorski is Distinguished Statesman at CSIS in Washington DC and Senior Fellow at the Center of European Studies, Harvard University. He was formerly Polands minister of defence (2005-2007), foreign minister (2007-2014) and speaker of parliament (2014-2015)…’]Radek Sikorski[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Victor Sebesteyn was born in Budapest. He was a child when his family left Hungary as refugees. He has worked for numerous British newspapers, including the London Evening Standard and The Times. He was an associate editor at Newsweek. ‘]Victor Sebestyen[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Robert Service is a noted writer on recent Russian history and politics. He completed a trilogy on Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin – the Trotsky biography won the Duff Cooper literary prize for 2009.’]Robert Service[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Born in Swansea, Sarah grew up in Italy. She returned to the UK in her teens and read Modern Languages at UCL. She started out in journalism almost 30 years ago as a TV listings sub-editor on the Daily Mirror and worked her way up via innumerable roles on various titles to her current position as columnist at the Daily Mail…’]Sarah Vine[/simple_tooltip]
[simple_tooltip content=’Benjamin is Global Counsel’s Managing Director and co-founder, and leads the business. Benjamin has a background in business and politics with a career split between working in the media and government…’]Benjamin Wegg-Prosser[/simple_tooltip]
