Speakers
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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David Aaronovitch is a writer, broadcaster and commentator on international politics and the media.
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John A. Adam is professor of mathematics at Old Dominion University.
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John Adams is one of America's most admired and respected composers.
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Ade Adepitan is a paralympic athlete.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an award-winning novelist and author of Half of A Yellow Sun and Americanah
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Lord Adonis is a politician, academic and journalist.
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Anwar Akhtar is Director of The Samosa.
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Jim Al-Khalili OBE is a theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster.
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Dr Naif Al-Mutawa is the Founder AND CEO of Teshkeel Media Group, for whom he created THE 99, the first group of comic superheroes born of an Islamic archetype.
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David Albury is design and development director, GELP
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams is a writer and curator with interests ranging from science to architecture and design.
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Douglas Alexander is the Secretary of State for International Development
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Bruce Alexander is a Canadian psychologist who has devoted his entire career to the study of addiction.
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Jeffrey C. Alexander is Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, and is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading social theorists.
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Jon Alexander is the co-author of the WWF-UK / PIRC report "Think of Me as Evil? Opening the Ethical Debates in Advertising"
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Yasmin Alibhai Brown is a journalist and a regular columnist on The Independent and London’s Evening Standard.
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Clare Allan is a Guardian Society columnist on mental health issues, and is the author of the bestselling Poppy Shakespeare.
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Ali A Allawi is a senior adviser to the Prime Minister of Iraq.
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A native of New England, Candace Allen became the first African-American female member of the Directors Guild of America after graduating from Harvard and attending the New York University School of Film and Television.
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Ellah Allfrey, OBE is Deputy Editor of Granta magazine.
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Paul Allin heads one of the analysis and reporting divisions in the UK Office for National Statistics.
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Martin Amis is one of Britain’s most highly-regarded authors.
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Tahmima Anam is a novelist and columnist.
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Chris Anderson is the Editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, and the author of the internationally acclaimed The Long Tail
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James Anderson is partner and manager at Baillie Gifford
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Professor June Andrews is the Director of the Dementia Services Development Centre in the Department of Applied Social Science at the University of Stirling, Scotland.
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Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist, writer, and broadcaster.
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Anne Applebaum is a Washington Post columnist and a Pulitzer-prize winning author and leading commentator on International Affairs and a frequent speaker and moderator at international forums.
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Bryan Appleyard is a journalist and special feature writer for the The Sunday Times and author of How to Live Forever or Die Trying (Simon & Schuster).
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Terri Apter, Ph.D. is a psychologist and writer and Senior Tutor at Newnham College, Cambridge. Her books on family dynamics, identity and relationships received international acclaim.
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Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology & Behavioural Economics at Duke University, and is dedicated to helping people live more sensible – if not rational – lives.
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Tom Armitage is a freelance technologist, writer, and designer.
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Claire Armitstead is the Guardian's literary editor.
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Franny Armstrong is the director of The Age of Stupid
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Jesse Armstrong is the co-writer of Peep Show, Four Lions (Feature, Dir. Chris Morris), That Mitchell and Webb Look, The Thick of It with Sam Bain.
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John Armstrong is a philosopher and has been recently appointed Philosopher-in-Residence at the Melbourne Business School.
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Karen Armstrong is a distinguished author of many bestselling and influential books on comparative religion, and instigator of the interfaith initiative ‘The Charter for Compassion
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Rachel Armstrong is Co-Director of AVATAR (Advanced Virtual and Technological Architectural Research) in Architecture & Synthetic Biology at The School of Architecture & Construction, University of Greenwich, London.
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Stephen Armstrong is a journalist he writes for the Guardian, the Sunday Times, GQ, Elle, Wallpaper and the New Statesman.
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Dr Ken Arnold is the Head of Public Programmes at the Wellcome Trust.
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Muhammad Nurayn Ashafa is known for his work in peace building.
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Rebecca Asher has worked in television news and current affairs and as the Deputy Editor of Woman’s Hour and an Executive Producer at BBC Radio 4.
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Jackie Ashley is a Guardian columnist and political interviewer.
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John Ashton CBE was the Special Representative for Climate Change at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office between 2006 and 2012 and is a founding director of E3G
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Assa Ashuach is a products designer focus on industrial social innovation. Owner of Assa studio, founder of Digital Forming ltd and a leader of the MA Design Suite at London Metropolitan University.
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Dr. Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, is a columnist at the Daily Beast.
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Clive Aslet is an award-winning writer and journalist, acknowledged as a leading authority on Britain and its way of life. In 1977 he joined the magazine Country Life, was for 13 years its Editor and is now Editor at Large.
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Dr Graeme Atherton is the Director of the Aimhigher WECAN London Partnership
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Andy Atkins is Executive Director of Friends of the Earth, the charity campaigning for solutions to environmental problems.
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Anne Atkins is a journalist, writer and commentator.
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Jane Atkinson is the Founder Director and Director of Dfuse CIC and Dfuse Charity.
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Maggie Atkinson is the children's commissioner for England.
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Sir William Atkinson is the Executive Headteacher of Phoenix High School.
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Scott Atran is a director of research in anthropology at the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris, France.
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Sir David Attenborough is Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. His career as a naturalist and broadcaster has spanned nearly five decades and there are very few places on the globe that he has not visited.
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Abdel Bari Atwan is the editor-in chief of the London based pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
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Margaret Atwood is poet, novelist and literary critic and is vice president of PEN International.
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Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green is the former Children’s Commissioner for England.
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Ian Ayres is William K. Townsend Professor at Yale Law School, best-selling author, co-founder of stickK.com, columnist for Forbes and the Freakonomics blog
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Dr Maha Azzam is an Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House
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