The Board
Seeking answers outside the box
Yevgenia Albats
Distinguished Journalist in Residence at NYU Jordan Centre, former Editor in Chief and CEO of New Times, Russia
Yevgenia Albats is a Distinguished Journalist in Residence at New York University's Jordan Centre, and the former Editor in Chief and CEO of the Russian political weekly New Times as well as an anchor with Echo Moskva broadcasting.
View profileAnne Applebaum
Journalist at The Atlantic and Professor of Practice at LSE Institute of Global Affairs
Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian. She is also Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics’ Institute of Global Affairs where she runs Arena, a program on disinformation and 21st century propaganda.
View profileUrvashi Butalia
Director, Founder and CEO of Zubaan Books
Urvashi Butalia is a well-known and highly regarded essayist and publisher
View profileProfessor J Jarpa Dawuni
Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University, USA
J Jarpa Dawuni is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University, Washington D.C. She is a qualified Barrister-at-Law before the Superior Courts of Ghana
View profilePetina Gappah
Writer and lawyer
Petina Gappah is a widely translated Zimbabwean writer and an international trade and investment lawyer, currently she is the Principal Legal Advisor to the Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area
View profileProfessor Simon Goldhill (Chair of Prize Board)
Professor of Greek Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge
Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
View profilePeter Kadas
Trustee of the Kadas Prize Foundation
Peter Kadas is a Trustee of the Kadas Prize Foundation.
View profileProfessor Roger Martin
Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto
Roger Martin is Professor Emeritus and former Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
View profileMilica Momcilovic
Ex-Officio Director of the World Federation of Science Journalists, and the Editor of the Science Programme at Radio/Television Serbia
Milica Momcilovic is an esteemed science journalist, Ex Officio Director of the World Federation of Science Journalists, and the Editor of the Science Programme at Radio/Television Serbia
View profileProfessor Joanna Page
Director of CRASSH at the University of Cambridge
Joanna Page is Director of CRASSH from October 2022 and a Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge
View profileProfessor Riccardo Rebonato
Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School
Riccardo Rebonato is Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School and Scientific Director of the EDHEC-Risk Climate Impact Institute. Previously he was Global Head of Rates and FX Research at PIMCO. He also served as Global Head of Market Risk, Global Head of Research and Head of Complex IR Derivatives Trading at several UK-based international institutions.
View profileBibi Bakare-Yusuf
Co-founder and Publishing Director of Cassava Republic Press and the co-founder of Tapestry Consulting
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf is co-founder and publishing director of Cassava Republic Press, one of Africa’s leading publishing houses, and the co-founder of Tapestry Consulting, a boutique research and training company focused on gender, sexuality and transformational issues in Nigeria.
View profileProfessor David Runciman
Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge
David Runciman is Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge and presenter of the podcast Past Present Future
View profileProfessor Steven Connor
Director of CRASSH at the University of Cambridge
Professor of English at Cambridge University since 2012, Steven Connor is Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).
View profileProfessor Alcinda Honwana
Strategic Director at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa at the London School of Economics
Alcinda Honwana is Strategic Director at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa and Centennial Professor at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics
View profileEva Wolfangel
Journalist, speaker and moderator
Eva Wolfangel is a journalist, speaker and moderator, named European Science Writer of the Year in 2018 by the Association of British Science Writers
View profileProfessor Diane Coyle
Bennett Professor of Public Policy at Cambridge University
Diane Coyle is the author of numerous books including GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History, The Economics of Enough, and The Soulful Science (all Princeton University Press).
View profileProfessor Paul Gilroy
Professor of English at Kings College London
Professor Gilroy joined Kings College London as Professor of English in September 2012, having previously been Giddens Professor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics (2005-2012), Charlotte Marian Saden Professor of African American Studies and Sociology at Yale (1999-2005) and Professor of Cultural Studies and Sociology at Goldsmiths College (1995-1999).
View profileE.J. Graff
Journalist, editor and author
Managing Editor of the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog and Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University
View profileProfessor Ira Katznelson
Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University
Ira Katznelson is an Americanist whose work has straddled comparative politics and political theory as well as political and social history. He returned in 1994 to Columbia, where he had been assistant and then associate professor from 1969 to 1974.
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