Mats Berdal is Professor in Security and Development in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, where he is also the Director of the Conflict, Security and Development Research Programme (CSDRG). He previously was the Director of Studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and served on the Commission of Inquiry set up by the Norwegian Government to examine Norway’s military, humanitarian and development contributions to allied operations in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2014.

Nathalie Berny has specialised in the study of collective action at the intersection of policy-making in various contexts, notably in approaches to policy change. Her present research in the UK focuses on the advocacy strategies of environmental groups in times of policy changes. Since 2020, she has been Professor in Sociology at Sciences Po Rennes.

Djenabou Cisse is a defense and security expert, with a focus on military and operational issues. She also works on strategic and security questions in Africa (North Africa, Sahel and Gulf of Guinea). Previously, Djenabou Cisse worked for the French Ministry for Armed Forces, where she held various positions (prospective analysis, interministerial cooperation). She also teaches at Sciences Po Paris.

Brendan Curran is a senior policy fellow working on sustainable finance policy with a particular focus on just transition and place-based climate investment. Prior to joining the Grantham Institute, Brendan spent several years working on sustainable finance policy within the UK Government. Firstly, as a policy adviser on social investment within the Government Inclusive Economy Unit and more recently working with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) on green finance policy and the publication of the Net Zero Strategy.

Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer is Senior Vice President and member of the executive team of the global think tank German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). She leads GMF’s Geostrategy policy and risk advisory work across Europe, the United States and the Indopacific region. She is a renowned expert in European affairs, transatlantic and international relations.

Laure de Roucy-Rochegonde is a Research Fellow at the Security Studies Center of the Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI). She is also an Associate Researcher at the Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI, Sciences Po/CNRS), and a Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas.

Emily Fry joined the Resolution Foundation in 2022 as an economist focused on energy and trade. Previously she spent several years in finance, the public sector and academia primarily focused on climate change and sustainability. Emily has an economics and management degree from the University of Oxford and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School.

Rodney Harrison is Professor in Heritage Studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. His research explores the histories of heritage and museums and their future roles in the light of the climate emergency. He is (co-)author and (co-)editor of 20 books and edited volumes, the latest of which is Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe.

Nancy Huston spent her childhood in Canada, her teenage years in the USA, and her adult life in France. Writing in both English and French, she practises various genres: novels, essays, children books, scenarios, and plays, mostly published by the Editions Actes Sud in France and Leméac in French Canada. Her works have won a wide amount of prizes. Her novel, Fault Lines, has been translated in over forty languages.

Sébastien Krier is currently a Policy Development & Strategy Manager at DeepMind, specialising in the intersection of research and strategy to shape DeepMind’s policies on frontier AI governance issues. Before joining DeepMind, he served as a Senior Technology Policy Researcher at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Centre. Earlier, he advised various governments and organisations on AI policy and governance.

Aline Magnien is Heritage General Curator at the French Ministry of Culture; and was the head of the ministry’s Research Laboratory on Historical Monuments until October 2023. Since the 15th of April 2019, she has taken part in the restoration of Notre-Dame as the Director of the LRMH (Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques). She was also one of the four coordinators for the Notre-Dame Scientific Workshop, a member of the National Commission for Heritage and Architecture, and a member of the Committee for the Scientific and Technical control of the State. She was previously in charge of the Musée Rodin’s collections (2007-2015).

Sébastien Maillard is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, and Special Advisor at the Institut Jacques Delors, having previously been its Director. Prior to this, he worked at the French newspaper La Croix, as its correspondent in Brussels and Rome. In addition, he has taught EU Affairs at Sciences Po Paris and Boston College.

Dominique Marchais is a filmmaker and scriptwriter. After studying philosophy at Sorbonne Paris 4, he worked as a film critic from 1994 to 1998 at Les Inrockuptibles magazine. From 1998 to 2002, he was a selector for the Belfort film festival – Entrevues. In 2003, he directed his first film, the short Lenz échappé. Since Le temps des grâces in 2010, he has worked on the relationship between landscape and politics through the form of documentary cinema.

Cecilia Mascolo is Full Professor in Mobile Systems in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. She is Director of the Centre for Mobile, Wearable System and Augmented Intelligence. She is also a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge and the recipient of an ERC Advanced Research Grant. Her research interests are in mobile and wearable systems and machine learning for mobile and wearable health and fitness.

Delphine Mercier is a sociologist specialised in migration and labour issues in the context of globalisation. She is currently the Director of Research at the CNRS in France, and the deputy director of the Laboratoire d’Économie et de Sociologie du Travail. Her latest research focuses on the integration of Syrian refugees in the labour markets of Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.

Carl Miller is the Founder of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos in 2011 and CASM Technology in 2014, and has spent the last decade researching social media intelligence (SOCMINT), extremism, online electoral interference, radicalisation, digital politics, conspiracy theories, cyber-crime, and Internet governance. He is the author of The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab (Penguin Random House), and the presenter of Power Trip: The Age of AI (Intelligence Squared).

Cyril Neyrat is artistic director of FIDMarseille (Marseille International Film Festival). He also writes for films and on film. Associate editor to the Éditions de l’oeil (Montreuil, France), he recently published Matériaux Pedro Costa, co-edited with Luc Chessel (2022) and edited Whit Stillman, L’ancien est le nouveau and Paul Vecchiali. Once More (FID/editions de l’oeil, 2023). He is the author of several books based on long conversations with filmmakers (Pedro Costa, Jean-Claude Rousseau, Miguel Gomes and Pierre Creton) and of many articles on Jean-Luc Godard’s work.

Anders Sandberg is Senior Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at the University of Oxford. His research centres on management of low-probability high-impact risks, societal and ethical issues surrounding human enhancement, estimating the capabilities of future technologies, and very long-range futures. He is Research Associate of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, the Center for the Study of Bioethics (Belgrade), and the Institute of Future Studies (Stockholm).

Antoine and Greg Saults are two brothers who decided to leave France to settle down in London. They went up and down London venues and festivals and recorded at Abbey Road. In an interview for Music Week magazine about his frequent discoveries of new musical talents on social media, the legendary founder and guitarist of The Who mentioned Saults: “They are in the same league as The 1975. (…). They are strong and authentic.”

Rory Stewart is a former UK cabinet Minister and Diplomat and Member of Parliament for Penrith and the Border. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was a Professor at Harvard University and has written a number of bestselling books, including Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within. He currently teaches Grand Strategy at Yale University and co-presents the UK’s top podcast, The Rest Is Politics, with Alastair Campbell.

Apolline Taillandier is a political theorist and historian specialising on transhumanism, liberalism, feminist thought, and artificial intelligence projects from the postwar period onwards. Her current research is on the history of artificial intelligence from the 1960s onwards, focusing on the ways feminist ideas have influenced projects in computer programming and computer education.

Lionel Tarassenko CBE is the President of Reuben College, and Lead for the AI & Machine Learning research cluster. He is a world-leading expert in the application of signal processing and machine learning to healthcare. He is the R&D Director of Sensyne Health, a company focused on applying Clinical AI algorithms to well-curated NHS data.

Rob Woodside is the Director of Conservation and Estates at English Heritage, making him responsible for the conservation of the National Heritage Collection, 420 of some of the most significant ancient and historic building and monuments in England. He is the author of the Sustainable Conservation Principles that set out the English Heritage approach to adaptive conservation, biodiversity, environmental sustainability, climate change and skills training.