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Sir Crispin is the current Director of the Policy Foresight Programme in the
James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at Oxford University.
His diplomatic career from 1954 included appointments as British ambassador
to Mexico and in 1987 as Permanent Representative to the United Nations. His
many interests include climate change, population issues, conservation of
biodiversity and the early history [...]

Samira Ahmed is a television newsreader and reporter best known for her work with the BBC. She joined Channel 4 News after several years as a correspondent and presenter at the BBC.
She travelled across the world for a Channel 4 documentary series, Islam Unveiled, examining the status of Muslim women in society.

Dame Margaret Anstee, DCMG served at the United Nations for over four decades, rising to the rank of Under-Secretary General in 1987.
During her UN career (1952-93), she handled disaster relief operations in Bangladesh, Mexico, Chernobyl and Kuwait. She served as Director General of the UN in Vienna and Coordinator of all UN narcotic drug control [...]

Zeinab Badawi is a television and radio reporter and news presenter. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News and co-presented the Channel 4 News with Jon Snow for several years, before joining BBC News.
In 2005, Badawi became the new presenter of The World on BBC Four, the UK’s first daily news bulletin [...]

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a London based journalist who worked for the New Statesman magazine in the early 1980s, but now contributing a column to each Monday’s Independent newspaper.
She has also contributed to the New York Times, Newsweek and The Guardian.

Learn more at www.alibhai-brown.com

Dr Nick Middleton is a geographer and supernumerary fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford who specialises in desertification.
His academic role is supplemented by his work as an environmental consultant and freelance author having written more than 200 articles in journals, magazines and newspapers, and 16 books. He has also co-written and edited another nine volumes.

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Sir Roger George Moore KBE is an English actor best known for his portrayals of the spy James Bond in a series of films produced between 1973 to 1985.
He has been a UNICEF ambassador since 1991 and was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and a Knight Commander of the [...]

Clare Short is a British politician and a member of the Labour Party. She is currently the Independent Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood, having been elected as a Labour Party MP in 1983, and was Secretary of State for International Development in the UK Labour government from 3 May 1997 until her resignation on [...]

Jon Snow is a British television newscaster and journalist for Channel 4 News. He served as ITN’s Washington correspondent (1983-1986) and as diplomatic editor (1986-1989) before becoming the main presenter of Channel 4 News in 1989. In 1992 he was the main anchor for ITN’s Election Night programme, broadcast on ITV.
He writes regular articles for [...]