Giles Duley is CEO of Legacy of War Foundation, photographer, writer, chef and presenter, born in 1971 in London. His work focuses on the long-term humanitarian impact of conflict. Starting his career as a music photographer, Duley worked with the likes of Mariah Carey, Oasis and Lenny Kravitz for publications including Q, Vogue, Sunday Times and Elle. In 2000 his … Read More

Dolly Alderton  is an award-winning journalist who has written for publications including  The  Sunday  Times, the  Daily Telegraph,  GQ,  Marie Claire,  Red  and  Grazia. From 2015 to 2017 she was The  Sunday  Times Style‘s dating columnist. She is the co-host of  The High Low, a weekly pop culture and current affairs podcast, she writes for television and writes a weekly … Read More

Chrissie Hynde  came to fame as the front woman for The Pretenders. Born in Akron, Ohio Chrissie was one of the leading women in rock in the 1980s and ’90s as the lead singer of The Pretenders. After studying art at Kent State University for a time, she took off for London, England, where she discovered the emerging new rock … Read More

 BEN ANDERSON, Documentary maker and Author  Ben has been reporting from conflict zones around the world for over two decades, making groundbreaking films on the wars in Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Congo, amongst others. Anderson began his career as an undercover reporter; producing exposés on topics as varied as funeral home abuses, the abuse of the mentally ill, and … Read More

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green … Read More

Lemn Sissay is a BAFTA-nominated, award-winning writer and broadcaster. He has authored collections of poetry and plays and his memoir My Name Is Why was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. His Landmark poems are visible in London, Manchester, Huddersfield and Addis Ababa. He has been made an Honorary Doctor by the universities of Manchester, Kent, Essex, Huddersfield and Brunel, … Read More

Misha Glenny is the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. During the revolutions in Eastern Europe of 1989 and the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Misha was the BBC’s Central Europe Correspondent for which he won a Sony Gold Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting. The award winning journalist and historian is also the author of … Read More

Lord David Puttnam is Chair of Atticus Education, an online education company founded in 2012 that delivers audio-visual seminars to students around the world. Until October 2021, he was a member of the House of Lords for 24 years, where he pursued an active role in a variety of areas, from educational and environmental issues to digital skills. Most recently, … Read More