 | David Aaronovitch columnist, The Times; author, Voodoo Histories |
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 | Diran Adebayo novelist and cultural critic; author of award-winning Some Kind of Black and My Once Upon A Time |
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 | Duleep Allirajah sports columnist, spiked |
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| Raj Anand technical director, Kwiqq.com | |
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| Sheila Anderson NERC | |
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 | Anne Anderson OBE director, ESRC/EPSRC/DTI People @ the Centre of Communication & Information Technology Research Programme; member of RAEng working group on Dilemmas of Surveillance |
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 | Josie Appleton convenor, Manifesto Club; author, The Case Against Vetting |
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 | Ian Archer-Watters ballet dancer, Les Ballets Grandiva and Fort Worth Ballet |
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 | Parminder Bahra executive editor, Times Online |
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 | Sarnath Banerjee fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart; artist and filmmaker; author of graphic novels, Corridor and Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers; founder, New Delhi's Phantomville comics publishing house |
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 | Jonathan Barnbrook typographer/designer and founder of Virus Foundry |
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| Sarah Barnett MTV | |
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 | Richard Barrett composer and performer; professor of music at Brunel University; spnm associate; socialist |
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 | Keith Bartley chief executive, General Teaching Council for England |
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 | Patrick Basham co-author, Diet Nation: Exposing the Obesity Debate; adjunct scholar, Cato Institute; director, Democracy Institute |
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 | Richard Beard novelist and sports writer; author, How to Beat the Australians |
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| Piers Bearne Rock Media | |
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 | Dave Beech artist; writer, Art Monthly; member, Freee Art Collective |
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 | Sean Bell secretary, The Brighton Salon; MA student, Journalism and Society, UEL. |
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 | Simon Belt IT consultant |
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 | Daniel Ben-Ami finance and economics journalist; author Pursuing Prosperity (forthcoming) and Cowardly Capitalism. |
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 | Jay Bernard poet, London Respect Slam winner (2004) and Foyle Young Poet of the Year (2005) |
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 | Chris Bickerton co-convenor, Sovereignty and Its Discontents working group; co-editor, Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations |
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 | Paul Bickerton sports coach working in sports development; sports writer |
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 | Alex Bigham Head of Communications & Projects, Foreign Policy Centre |
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 | Helen Birtwistle press officer, Institute of Ideas and Pfizer Debating Matters Competition |
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 | Peter Bishop director, Design for London |
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 | Tim Black writer on arts, entertainment and the British sitcom; journalist, spiked. |
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 | Cara Bleiman music student, University of Oxford; holder of Bayreuth Scholarship and Leask Music Scholarship |
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| Louisa Bolch Channel 4 | |
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 | Giles Bolton writer and aid worker; former head of British aid programme in Rwanda; author, Poor Story: An Insider Uncovers How Globalisation and Good Intentions Have Failed the World's Poor |
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 | Matthew Bolton TELCO organiser, London Citizens |
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 | David Bowden poet and playwright, MA Creative Writing student |
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 | Kierra Box activist and youth worker in North West London |
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 | Sarah Boyes commissioning editor (books), Culture Wars |
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 | Justine Brian national administrator, Institute of Ideas and Pfizer Debating Matters Competition; food writer. |
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 | Andrew Brighton writer and painter; contributing editor, Critical Quarterly; former senior curator for public programmes, Tate Modern |
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 | Jennie Bristow writer on parenting issues and intergenerational relations; author Guide to Subversive Parenting; columnist, spiked; editor Parents With Attitude.com |
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 | Brian Brivati professor of contemporary history, Kingston University; author, The End of Decline: Blair and Brown in Power |
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 | George Brock international editor, The Times; current president, World Editors Forum. |
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 | Kerry Brown associate fellow, Chatham House; co founder/director of Strategic China Ltd; author of The Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century. |
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 | David Buckingham professor of education, Institute of Education; director, Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media |
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 | Andrew Calcutt editor, Rising East; programme leader, MA Journalism and Society, University of East London |
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 | Mike Carr chief science officer, BT |
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 | Camilla Cavendish leader writer and columnist, The Times |
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 | Ruth Chadwick distinguished research professor, Cardiff University; director, Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen) |
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 | Michael Chanan professor of film and video, Roehampton University; author, The Politics of Documentary; co-director, Detroit: Ruin of a City |
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 | Tom Chivers writer, editor and promoter of poetry; director Penned in the Margins; co-founder, London Word Festival; Poet in Residence, The Bishopsgate Institute, London |
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 | Sarah Churchwell senior lecturer in American literature and culture, University of East Anglia; author, The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe |
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 | Dave Clements social policy writer; co-editor, The Future of Community; member, Future Cities Project |
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 | Robert Clowes chairman, Brighton Salon; Visiting Research and Teaching Fellow, Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Sussex. |
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 | Alexander Cockburn journalist; editor, CounterPunch; co-author, End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate? |
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 | Paul Collier professor of economics, University of Oxford; director, Centre for the Study of African Economies; author, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It |
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 | Simon Conway Morris professor of evolutionary palaeobiology, University of Cambridge; author, Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe |
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 | Brian Cox Royal Society research fellow, University of Manchester; television and radio presenter, writer and broadcaster; particle physicist working at CERN, in charge of project to upgrade the ATLAS and CMS detectors at the LHC |
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 | Patrick Cox executive creative director, Wolff Olins; designer, London 2012 logo |
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 | Stella Creasy head of research and development, Involve; author, Participation Nation: The Challenge of Reconnection |
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 | Sarah Crown editor, Guardian Unlimited Books; judge, 2007 Forward Prize |
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 | Dolan Cummings editor, Culture Wars; editorial and research director, Institute of Ideas. |
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 | Philip Cunliffe lecturer in defence studies, King’s College London; co-convenor, Sovereignty and Its Discontents working group; co-editor, Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations. |
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 | Iain Dale director of live programming, 18 Doughty Street; political blogger and former Conservative parliamentary candidate |
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 | Steven Daley founder, Trasna an Domhain go Leir; researcher on the economic sovereignty of developing countries |
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 | Neil Davenport writer; cultural critic; politics and sociology lecturer, Middlesex. |
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 | Jenny Davey deputy City editor, The Sunday Times |
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| William de Braekeleer Honda | |
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 | Suzy Dean freelance journalist, researcher and writer on democracy, multiculturalism and cities; co-organiser, Manifesto Club; co-organiser, Institute of Ideas Current Affairs Forum. |
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 | Thomas Deichmann editor, Novo magazine; author, Leben, Natur, Wissenschaft. Alles, was man wissen muss [Life, Nature, Science: All You Need to Know] |
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 | James Delingpole author, journalist, broadcaster, TV and rock critic; author, How to Be Right |
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 | Shirley Dent communications director, Institute of Ideas; producer Battle Satellites programme, 2008; development editor, Culture Wars; columnist at Guardian Unlimited Arts; co-author Radical Blake |
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 | Stuart Derbyshire senior lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham; member, IoI Science and Health Forum. |
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 | Venu Dhupa director of arts and creativity, British Council |
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 | Ceri Dingle director, WORLDwrite and Chew On It productions |
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 | Richard Dowden director, Royal African Society |
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 | Bill Drummond artist; founder, No Music Day, a five year plan to promote debate about our ever-shifting relationship with music |
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| Ian Duffy BP | |
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 | Tom Dunmore editor-in-chief, Stuff and www.stuff.tv |
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 | Anthony Dunne head of design interactions, RCA; partner, Dunne & Raby |
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 | Bill Durodié Associate Fellow of the International Security Programme at Chatham House, London and from September 2008, Senior Fellow co-ordinating the Homeland Defence Programme of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. |
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 | Sonya Dyer artist and arts consultant; author, Boxed In: How Cultural Diversity Policies Constrict Black Artists |
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 | Wendy Earle educator and researcher in the cultural sector; part of education team, British Film Institute; member, IoI Education Forum. |
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 | Martin Earnshaw reviews editor, Future Cities Project; co-editor Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated. |
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| Inua Ellams poet; author, 13 Fairy Negro Tales | |
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 | Andrew English motoring correspondent, The Daily Telegraph |
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 | Edzard Ernst Laing chair in Complementary Medicine, Peninsula Medical School, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth |
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 | Paul Evans programme manager, Councillor.info; co-founder, Poptel Technology; specialist in promoting web technologies to the labour movement |
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 | Catherine Ewart head of corporate affairs, Science and Technology Facilities Council |
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 | Keri Facer research director, Futurelab |
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 | Naresh Fernandes editor-in-chief, Time Out India; author, Bombay Then and Now; co-editor, Bombay, Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai |
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 | Michael Fitzpatrick GP; author, The Tyranny of Health: Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle; commentator on medical matters, politics, religion and the history of ideas |
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 | John Fitzpatrick professor of Law; director of Kent Law Clinic; Chair of the Law Centres Federation |
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 | Conor Foley freelance humanitarian aid worker |
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| Eliot Forster Solace Pharmaceuticals | |
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| Ian Foster cameraman, WORLDwrite and other international documentaries, including Mine Your Own Business | |
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 | Claire Fox director, Institute of Ideas |
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 | Christopher Frayling rector, Royal College of Art; Professor of Cultural History, RCA; chairman, Arts Council England. |
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 | Steve Fuller professor of sociology, University of Warwick; author, Science vs Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution |
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 | Frank Furedi professor of sociology, University of Kent; author, Politics of Fear, Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?, Population and Development, Invitation to Terror and Paranoid Parenting. |
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 | Tony Gilland science and society director, Institute of Ideas; editor, What is Science Education For?. |
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| Val Gillies senior research fellow, ESRC Families and Social Capital Research Group, London South Bank University; author, Marginalised Mothers: Exploring Working Class Experiences of Parenting | |
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 | Jonathan Glancey architecture and design editor, Guardian; author, London: Bread and Circuses |
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