Dr Tiffany Jenkins is a writer and author.

Her last book, Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums and Why They Should Stay There , delved into the complex forces shaping the escalating debate over repatriation museum artefacts and rectifying historical injustices. She is also the author of Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority, and editor of Political Culture: Soft Interventions and Nation Building.

She was a columnist for the Scotsman for over 5 years. Other writing credits include the Financial Times, Guardian, Observer and the Spectator. She has written and presented several programmes for BBC Radio 4, including the series  A Narrative History of Secrecy, 'Contracts of Silence ', on NDAs, and ‘Beauty and the Brain’, which explored what science can tell us about art.

She has been the arts and society director of the Academy of Ideas, Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh; and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. She has acted as a consultant advisor for a variety of arts organisations in Britain and the Nordic countries. Her Phd is in sociology; her BSC in art history.

Pierre d’Alancaisez is a curator and critic. For a decade, he was the director of 'waterside contemporary' in London, a visual art gallery which pioneered social practice and art activism approaches in the art market.

He writes regularly for The Critic and his work has appeared in ArtReview, Compact, and Arts of the Working Class, among others.

His current PhD research investigates interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and the relationship between artists’ access to non-arts skills and the impacts of artistic practices.

He has also been a cultural strategist in higher education and the charity sector, a publisher, a scientist, and a financial services professional.

Sonya Douglas is an artist and writer. She studied art at Newport college of Art and Design, and after working in restorative youth justice, set up PaterArts in 2005 to promote STEM projects through the arts.

She cofounded Tailbone Productions which developed community arts projects alongside digital applications. She has been at various times a singer, a performance poet, an advice worker, and board member of various community unions and regional development funds.

She now campaigns largely on women’s rights issues and for meaningful inclusion. She is on the advisory board of Sex Matters and is a member of the Women’s Rights Network.

Bryndís is a freelance journalist and contributor at Reduxx magazine with a focus on free speech and the law. She lives in Scotland, where she enjoys creating documentaries, multimedia art, writing critical analysis essays, and advocating for human rights. She has experience in film and television in many departments, with a focus on Art Direction. She has a BA(Hons) in Fine Art and an LLB in Scots Law and is currently undertaking the Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Legal Practice at the University of Dundee.

JJ is a writer and art critic. He studied art at London’s Goldsmiths College and has since contributed widely to the art and mainstream press; his reviews, articles and commentaries have appeared in publications including Art Monthly, Time Out, Art Net News the Telegraph and the Spectator.

Since 2006, he has worked on the editorial staff of the international art magazine ArtReview, where he is now editor. He completed a PhD in art history at the Royal College of Art in 2017, and his book on British art criticism in the 1970s will be published by Routledge in 2024.

Kenneth Cukier is the deputy executive editor of The Economist, following two decades at the paper as a technology writer, foreign correspondent and commentary editor. He is the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling book “Big Data,” which was translated into over 20 languages, and of "Framers," on the limits of AI. He was previously a research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School and at Oxford's Saïd Business School, as well as a trustee of Chatham House in 2016-22.

He is currently on the board of The Open String Foundation that provides classical instruments to children. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

SIMON FANSHAWE OBE is a diversity consultant, broadcaster and author. He is the co-founder of Diversity by Design which supports organisations to truly diversify their senior people. His latest book “The Power of Difference” was published in December 2021 by Kogan Page. It is the Chartered Institute Management’s Book of 2023. He was voted the second Most Influential Thinker in 2022 by HR Magazine and inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2023.

He is currently on the Board of Powerful Women and is Chairman of Hexagon Housing Association.

He was previously Chairman of Sussex University, a non-exec director of Housing & Care 21, a Governor of the Museum of London and on the Board of Brighton Dome & Festival.

He has long been involved in campaigns for equality and positive social change and has served on the Board of companies and organisations in the private and charity sectors for over thirty-five years.

He was a co-founder of Stonewall and of the Kaleidoscope Trust. He was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to Higher Education and made an Honorary Doctor of the University of Sussex for services to diversity and human rights.

He lives in Brighton with his husband and they have neither children nor dogs. When not celebrating difference, he is cooking.

Christian Henson is a British composer, primarily working on television and film soundtracks. He has also soundtracked video games, and is the co-founder of Spitfire Audio with fellow composer Paul Thomson. Henson has been nominated for a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello Award for his music.

Henson gained a 2007 Ivor Novello Awards nomination for 'Best Original Movie Score' for his work on the 2006 film Severance. He received 2004 World Soundtrack Awards "Soundtrack Composer of the Year" and "Discovery of the Year" nominations for Les fils du vent.

Henson was nominated, along with fellow composers Jerry Goldsmith and The Flight (his brother Joe Henson and Alexis Smith), for a BAFTA for the music of the Alien: Isolation video game in 2015.

Henson founded the British music technology company Spitfire Audio with fellow composer Paul Thomson in 2007. The company is a producer of musical "virtual instruments", and has collaborated with noted film composer Hans Zimmer, as well as Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Olafur Arnalds, Roger Taylor of Queen, Eric Whitacre, and most recently with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In 2018, Henson launched a website called Pianobook, dedicated to creating and sharing sampled instruments for free. It is run by a small group of volunteers, but anyone could share and use sounds, for free.

Audrey Ludwig is an experienced discrimination solicitor having qualified in 1990 and lives in Suffolk. As part of Audrey’s commitment to public legal education, she gives her general views on current equality law, related human rights law, and access to justice, speaking at various conferences, and blogging for Women’s Place UKMaking policies Equality Act compliant: Audrey Ludwig - Woman's Place UK (womansplaceuk.org), FILIA How To Reconcile The Seemingly Irreconcilable — FiLiA.

She is also a founder member of the collective Legal Feminist Legally this is not a “trans rights issue” it’s a “sex rights issue”. A blog about boxes - (legalfeminist.org.uk). She tweets as @AudreySuffolk. When not working, she is passionate about the arts, regularly visiting London and East Anglian galleries and is a member of the Tate.