Powerful Undercurrents

Joseph Nye is a political scientist and former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Baroness Catherine Ashton is a British Labour politician who served as the High Representative of the Union of Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and First Vice President of the European Commission in the Barroso Commission from 2009 to 2014.

Bill Browder is an American-born English financier and political activist. He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, the investment advisor to the Hermitage Fund, which at a time was the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia.

James Vitali is a Conservative Party councillor and head of Political Economy at the UK’s leading think tank, Policy Exchange.

Matthew Ridley is a British science writer, journalist and businessman. He is known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics, and has been a regular contributor to The Times newspaper.

Jeremy Black MBE is a British historian, writer, and former professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.

Sir Ferdinand Mount is a British writer and political commentator who is a regular columnist for The Sunday Times. 

Jesse Norman is a British Conservative Party politician who, since 2010, has been MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire.