Speakers

David Petraeus

Former Director of the CIA

Martha Fiennes

Award-winning filmmaker

Slavoj Žižek

Maverick philosopher

Paterson Joseph

Beloved actor and intellectual

Lisa Randall

Trailblazing Harvard Physicist

Roger Penrose

Nobel prize winning physicist

Peter Singer

World renowned ethicist

Rowan Williams

Former Archbishop of Canterbury

Amy Chua

Outspoken legal writer and commentator

Joscha Bach

Cognitive AI neuroscientist

Winston Marshall

Musician turned renegade

Yasmin Benoit

Award-winning activist

John Bercow

Former speaker of the commons

Christina Lamb

Sunday Times chief foreign correspondent

Marika Taylor

Boundary-Pushing Physicist

Dan Ariely

Irrationality Expert

Avshalom Elitzur

Revolutionary space time physicist

Donald Hoffman

Leading anti-reality theorist

Ilan Pappé

Outspoken critical Israeli historian

S.Y.Quraishi

Former Chief Election Commissioner of India

Jessica DeFino

Beauty culture critic

Scott Aaronson

Top quantum complexity theorist

Chris Lintott

Oxford astrophysicist and presenter

Jenny Kleeman

Journalist and broadcaster

Tommy Curry

Pioneering Philospher of Race

Priya Natarajan

Award-winning theoretical astrophysicist

Stuart Hameroff

Quantum Consciousness Theorist

Armen Sarkissien

Former president of Armenia

Denis Noble

Leading Biologist

Sophie Scott-Brown

Inspiring intellectual historian

Bernard Carr

Mathematical physicist and cosmologist

Ali Allawi

Veteran Iraqi politician and scholar

Aaron Bastani

Leftist media disruptor

Myriam François

Filmmaker and activist

Paul Bloom

Anti-Empathy Psychologist

Catherine Rowett

Distinguished politician and philosopher

Guy Standing

Pioneering labour economist

Hilary Lawson

Radical post-post modern philosopher

Shini Somara

Celebrated science communicator

Tim Maudlin

World-leading philosopher of physics

Theodore Dalrymple

Acclaimed author and critic

Claudia de Rham

Pioneering physicist

Judith Donath

Pioneering social media expert

Simon Baron-Cohen

Pioneering clinical psychologist

Bronwen Maddox

CEO of Chatham House

Ruth Padel

Poet and Novelist

Frances Ashcroft

Pioneering geneticist

Subrena E. Smith

Leading opponent of evolutionary psychology

Jack Symes

Trailblazing emerging philosopher

Güneş Taylor

Award-winning geneticist

Nancy Sherman

Professor of Philosophy

John Ralston Saul

World-renowned writer and anti-globalism activist

Shannon Vallor

Prophetic AI ethicist

Rana Mitter

Historian and political scientist

Robin van den Akker

Leading Metamodernist Scholar

Isabel Hilton

Leading China expert

Aline Laurent-Maynard

Acclaimed author, journalist and podcast host

Mary Ann Sieghart

Stalwart public intellectual

Steve Taylor

Psyhchologist and spirituality expert

Des Fitzgerald

New Generation sociologist

Peter York

Inimitable Style Guru

Joanna Kavenna

Acclaimed novelist

João Magueijo

Radical physicist

Johnjoe McFadden

Acedemic and author

Ben Ware

Leading Wittegensteinian and philosopher of extinction.

Sir Simon Wessely

Renowned psychiatrist and epidemiologist

Roger Hearing

BBC business presenter

Frank Tallis

Psychotherapist and award-winning author

Claire Provost

Discerning investigative journalist

Harry Cliff

Celebrated Physicist and Science Communicator

David Livingstone Smith

Philosopher of Dehumanisation

Alpa Shah

Tireless defender of democracy

Tim Palmer

Celebrated Mathematic and Climate Physicist

Vicky Pryce

Powerhouse economist

Ruth Padel

Poet and Novelist

Dominic walliman

Popular science educator

Abby Innes

Insightful political scholar

Bjorn Ekeberg

Radical Philosopher of Science

Barry C Smith

Leading philosopher of the senses

Kate Sullivan De Estrada

India and global order expert

Lyndsey Stonebridge

Renowned writer and political thinker

Hannah Rich

Historian and Activist

Angie Hobbs

Kenneth Cukier

Leading podcaster and journalist

Matthew Beaumont

Acclaimed author and critic

Simon May

Radical philosopher of emotions

James Riley

Writer and Cultural Critic

Camilla Hall

Revolutionary documentary filmmaker

Kerry McCarthy

Shadow Minister for Climate Change

Nadia Idle

Voice of the Joyful Left

Jeremy Gilbert

Podcaster, Philosopher, Praxis

Keir Milburn

Intergenerational political podcaster

Avery Anapol

Writer for The Conversation

Caleb Althorpe

Political philosopher of work

Isabel Berwick

Expert on work

Nilufar Ahmed

Antonella Tramacere

Philosopher of neuroscience

Fellipe do Vale

Gender theorist and theologian

Lisa Cameron

Voice for Conservative Scotland

Dale Turner

Indigenous thought Philosopher

Janne Teller

Critically acclaimed novelist