Sir Martin Sorrell
Sir Martin Sorrell is Founder and Executive Chairman of S4 Capital PLC, a new age / new era, purely digital advertising and marketing services business for global, multinational, and millennial-driven influencer brands.
Anthony Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and founder and chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum and venture studio.
Boris Johnson
Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Leader of the Conservative Party, Foreign Secretary, and Mayor of London.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Academy Award Nominee Benedict Cumberbatch recently garnered awards for his performance as Phil Burbank in Jane Campion's lauded film 'The Power Of The Dog'.
Sir David Adjaye
Sir David Adjaye OBE is a Ghanaian-British architect who has received international acclaim for his impact on the field.
Alice Rawsthorn
Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning design critic and author, whose books include Design as an Attitude, Hello World: Where Design Meets Life and, most recently, Design Emergency: Building a Better Future.
Mariella Frostrup
Firmly established at the very pinnacle of the UK’s opinion-forming journalists and Broadcasters, Mariella Frostrup has defied every attempt to pigeonhole her skills and talents.
Carlos Acosta
His athleticism, the sheer joy of dancing as well as his tremendous ability to convey emotion, inspired a generation of dancers across the globe. His very touching story and the obstacles he has overcome speak for themselves.
Charles Moore
Charles Moore, Baron Moore of Etchingham, is a prominent journalist and author. Charles has been the Consulting Editor of The Telegraph Group since 2004, and is best known for his three-part biography on Margret Thatcher, as well as his work as Chairman of the London-based think-tank, Policy Exchange.
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Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley is the former United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations. She served as a member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet and the National Security Council.
Lord Norman Foster
Norman Foster is the founder and executive chairman of Foster + Partners, a global studio for architecture, urbanism and design, rooted in sustainability.
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Nick Hackworth
Nick Hackworth is an art writer and curator. He is Director of Modern Forms, a private collection and curatorial platform founded by collector Hussam Otaibi and co-founder of Paradise Row Projects a non-profit arts organisation.
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Robert Rinder
Robert Rinder is a professional criminal barrister and since 2014 has been the eponymous star of the courtroom reality series Judge Rinder.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore is a prizewinning historian and novelist whose bestselling books have been published in over forty-eight languages and are being developed for the screen by producers such as Angelina Jolie, Lionsgate, Universal, Netflix, 21st Century Fox and FilmFour.
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David Cameron
David Cameron was born in 1966 and attended Eton College and Oxford University. He became the Member of Parliament for Witney in Oxfordshire in 2001. Four years later he was elected leader of the Conservative Party where he implemented a programme of modernisation.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of an elite group of artists to have achieved EGOT status by receiving an Emmy, four Grammys, an Oscar and eight Tony Awards.
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Clare Balding
Clare Balding is one of Britain's leading broadcasters. She is also a best-selling and award-winning author of five books and an ardent campaigner for better coverage of women’s sport.
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Heston Blumenthal
Heston Blumenthal is considered to be one of the best chefs of his generation. Although self-taught, he has pushed the boundaries of a traditional kitchen and completely changed the way people approach cooking.
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Camilla Fayed
Camilla Fayed, Founder of Farmacy UK, has established herself as one of the most prominent voices of the plant-based universe.
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Daniel Libeskind
An international figure in architecture and urban design, the architect Daniel Libeskind is renowned for his ability to evoke cultural memory in buildings of equilibrium-defying contemporaneity.
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General David H. Petraeus
General David H. Petraeus, one of the most prominent U.S. military figures of the post-9/11 era, and former Director of the CIA, will be talking about the role of the military, and what it takes to be a leader in some of the most difficult and extraordinary situations.
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William Shawcross CVO
Former Chair of the Charity Commission, William Shawcross CVO, is a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange. His focus of study is extremism in public life, including anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim prejudice, as part of a new book project he is working on.
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George Osborne
George Osborne is the Editor of London’s Evening Standard newspaper and was the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016 and First Secretary of State from 2015 to 2016.
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Daniel Finkelstein, OBE
Daniel Finkelstein, OBE, is the Associate Editor, a Columnist and Leader Writer for The Times. He also sits in the House of Lords as Lord Finkelstein.
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Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hiddleston is a British actor whose theatre credits include: Hamlet, Coriolanus, Ivanov, Othello, Cymbeline, The Changeling.
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Mark Ronson
Mark Ronson is an internationally renowned DJ and five-time-Grammy-Award-winning artist and producer.
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George Lamb
Through George’s work on Channel 4 and E4 Music, he’s been fortunate enough to interview some of the biggest names in music and film.
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Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons is a world-renowned actor, trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Richard Curtis
Richard Curtis is a screen writer and director, responsible for films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones's Diary, Mr. Bean, Love Actually, The Boat That Rocked, About Time and most recently Trash and Esio Trot.
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Vanessa Kirby
Vanessa started her acting career in a series of hugely successful theatre roles from Shakespeare to Arthur Miller, achieving rave reviews and for which she was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award for three consecutive years.
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Achim Borchardt-Hume
Achim Borchardt-Hume is Director of Exhibitions at Tate Modern. Borchardt-Hume joined Tate Modern as Head of Exhibitions in November 2012. He is the Curator of The EY Exhibition Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy.
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Emilia Kabakov
Emilia Kabakov is a Russian-born, American-based artist that collaborates with her husband Ilya on environments which fuse elements of the everyday with those of the conceptual.
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Adam Robinson
A graduate of Oxford University and The Wharton School, Adam Robinson is a New York Times bestselling author.
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Josh Waitzkin
Josh Waitzkin, author of The Art of Learning, is an 8-time US National Chess Champion, a 2-time World Champion in Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands, and the first Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Black Belt under 9-time World Champion Marcelo Garcia.
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Tom Bradby
Tom Bradby is a journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He is currently Anchor of ITV's News at Ten and host of the political discussion series 'The Agenda'.
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JK Rowling
J.K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter series of seven books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have sold over 450 million copies worldwide, and have been turned into eight blockbuster films.
Tony Blair
Tony Blair served as Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1997 to 2007, the only Labour leader in the party’s 100 year history to win three consecutive elections.
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Dr Gabriele Finaldi
Dr Gabriele Finaldi is a British art historian and curator. Since August 2015, he has been director of the National Gallery in London, England.
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Lord Mervyn King
Lord Mervyn King is the former Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of its Monetary Policy Committee and current Trustee of the National Gallery.
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David Miliband
David Miliband is the President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee.
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Jonathan Freedland
Jonathan Freedland is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. He has been a weekly columnist for the Guardian since 1997.
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David Beckham
David Beckham is a former professional footballer, fashion icon and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
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Kirsty Young
Kirsty Young is the presenter of Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 and also fronts a variety of television programmes.
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Edmund de Waal
Edmund de Waal is a British artist and author of the bestselling memoir 'The Hare with Amber Eyes'.
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Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lawson is a journalist, broadcaster, television personality, gourmet, and food writer.
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Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson is an author and Professor of History at Harvard University.
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Southbank Sinfonia
Southbank Sinfonia brings together 32 outstanding graduates from all over the world to perform classical music.
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Lawrence H. Summers
Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus of Harvard University.
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Garry Kasparov
Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1963, Garry Kasparov became the under-18 chess champion of the USSR at the age of 12.
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Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Rogoff is Thomas D. Cabot Professor at Harvard University. From 2001-2003, Rogoff served as Chief Economist at the IMF.
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Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer has produced a diverse body of work comprising of painting, sculpture and installation.
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Tim Marlow
Tim Marlow is an art historian and commentator on the contemporary cultural scene with impressive and wide-ranging experience.
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Mike Milken
Mike Milken's career has mirrored his four main professional passions, medical research, finance, public health and education.
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John Landis
John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.
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Dr. Ben S. Bernanke
Dr. Ben S. Bernanke is economist at the Brookings Institution and served two terms as chairman of the Board of Governors.
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Jason Cummins
Jason Cummins joined Brevan Howard in 2004 and is the Head of Research and Chief US Economist.
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