Isabel Hilton is a London based writer and broadcaster and founder in 2006 of the China Dialogue Trust (CDT).  She now serves as senior advisor to the CDT, which publishes www.chinadialogue.net, a fully bilingual Chinese English website devoted to building a shared approach on climate change and environmental issues, as well as www.thethirdpole.net; www.dialogochino.net, and   www.chinadialogueocean.net Isabel Hilton studied Chinese … Read More

Misha Glenny is Rector of the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. He is a broadcaster and writer specialising in geo-politics, cyber security and organised crime. Misha’s books include  McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime which was adapted into a TV drama series by the BBC and The Balkans: Nationalism, War and The Great Powers 1804-2012. He is also the host of … Read More

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 six 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 OBE is a poet playwright, memoirist performer and broadcaster. Lemn has read on stage throughout the world, from The Library of Congress in The United States to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, from the Opera House of Dubai to London Palladium and finally  to the heady heights of Wigan library in… Wigan.   Lemn was awarded The Pen Pinter Prize … Read More