Ehsan Masood is a writer and journalist based in London, writing mainly about science, international development and the politics of the Muslim world. He writes a fortnightly column for the online magazine Opendemocracy.net and is a consultant to the Science and Development Network. He also writes for "Prospect magazine" and the journal "Nature ".

Timothy Garton Ash is a renowned historian, columnist, essayist and author. He is currently director of the European Studies Centre and a Gerd Bucerius Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary History at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University , a fellow of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Arts and a governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy.

Philippe Legrain is a British economist, journalist and writer. He writes about globalisation, migration and European issues. He is a contributing editor to "Prospect magazine" and from September 2007 he will be a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of the "London School of Economics". He was previously chief economist and director of policy for the pro-European pressure group, Britain in Europe, special adviser to WTO director-general Mike Moore, …

Raymond Tallis (born Liverpool, England) - Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Manchester. As well as being a leading figure in British gerontology Tallis has also written numerous books on philosophy and is perhaps best known for his attack on postmodernism in books such as "Not Saussure" and for his attack upon the assumptions of much artificial intelligence research in his book "Why the Mind is Not a Computer".

Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947 in Endicott, New York) is an American social critic, intellectual, author and teacher. She is a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Paglia completed her undergraduate studies at Binghamton University and later, her graduate studies at Yale.

Josef Joffe (born March 15, 1944) is editor and publisher of "Die Zeit", a weekly German newspaper, the Marc and Anita Abramowitz Fellow in International Relations at the Hoover Institution, a fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and adjunct professor of political science at Stanford University, and an associate of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. Joffe was born in Lithuania and grew up in West Berlin, …

Rod McKie (Roderick McKie), is a full-time professional cartoonist residing in the UK. He began drawing gag cartoons for Britain's national press whilst still at school. In the early 1980s he became one of "Punch" magazine's youngest cartoonists. In the same year he created, drew and wrote, the comic character Skid Kidd for IPC's "Buster" comic. McKie made it clear from the start that he wanted the character, …

Julian Le Grand is Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE) and has been a senior policy advisor to the Prime Minister (Tony Blair). If there is a single defining thought about New Labour's approach to public services, it surrounds the benefit of choice, alongside investment. And if there has been a single leading intellectual exponent of this thesis, it is Julian Le Grand, the health policy adviser to the prime minister.

Derek Michael Coombs (born 12 August 1931) was a British Conservative politician. Coombs was Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley from 1970 to 1974, when he lost to Labour's Sydney Tierney. He is the chairman of Prospect magazine.

Lucy Kellaway (born 1959) is the management columnist at the Financial Times (FT). She has also worked as energy correspondent, Brussels correspondent, a Lex writer, and interviewer of business people and celebrities, all with the FT. She has become well known for her pointed commentaries on the limitations of modern corporate culture. At the British Press Awards 2006 she was named Columnist of the Year.

Dr. Robin Harris (born 22 June, 1952) is a British author and journalist. He has written for "The Daily Telegraph" and "Prospect". He has a doctorate in modern history from Oxford University. Harris was Director of the Conservative Research Department from 1985 to 1988 and a member of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1989 to 1990. He helped draft the Conservative Party manifesto for the 1987 general election. It was initially thought that Mrs.

Christopher Tookey was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire and educated at Tonbridge School and Exeter College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union, Editor of Isis, President of the Etceteras and Musical Director of Oxford Theatre Group. He is an English film critic whose website www.tookeysfilmguide.com is the largest collection of film reviews on the internet. Chris Tookey has been film critic for the "Daily Mail" in London, England, since 1993, …

Tamara Chalabi is an Iraqi writer who covers Iraqi politics. Her writing has been featured in the magazines "Slate" and "Prospect". She is the daughter of Iraqi politician and businessman Ahmed Chalabi.

Anand Menon is Professor of West European Politics and Director of the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He is also a a Special Adviser to the House of Lords EU committee. His publications include "European Politics" (Oxford University Press, 2007), co-edited with Colin Hay, and he has written for popular publications including the "Financial Times", the "London Review of Books" and "Prospect".

Daniel Ben-Ami is a London-based journalist and author specialising in economics and finance. He has written extensively on economic development, the world economy, financial markets and investment funds. At present he is writing a book on why society has become so anxious about mass affluence. His work has appeared in general and specialist publications including the "Financial Times", "The Guardian", "The Independent", …

David Asman joined FOX Business Network as an anchor in September 2007. He also serves as host of Forbes on Fox, a weekend half-hour program on FOX News Channel that offers an informative look at the week in business. Asman has been with FNC since 1997 when he joined the network as a weekday anchor for Fox News Live. In 2005, he was named head of FNC's documentary unit where he hosted a series of investigative specials, including "Global Warming: The Debate Continues."

Professor Julian LE GRAND Co-Director of CASE, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy

Currently, I direct the Global Policy Innovations program at the Carnegie Council and am affiliated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Our program publishes the online magazine Policy Innovations, which features the ideas on building a fairer globalization: www.policyinnovations.org; I am also a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council, researching Asian trade, energy, and soft power issues. And I edit Carnegie Ethics Online, a publication that grapples with the . . .

Bernard Wasserstein Forty years ago, inspired by the 1968 revolts in Paris, I tried to get the glamorous Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko elected as Oxford's professor of poetry. Though our campaign failed, it somehow managed to suck in all the cultural currents of the time Bernard Wasserstein For centuries, Jerusalem's sanctity for Christians, Jews and Muslims has been ruthlessly exploited for political ends. Divided it will remain

Vieira de Mello was, of course, one of the few "better performers" who were constantly on call to make up for the non-performance of others. In 1999, while emergency relief co-ordinator in New York, Kofi Annan sent him on a three-month mission to East Timor. He did so well that his stay was prolonged to two and a half years, during which he steered the country to independence.

G John Ikenberry G John Ikenberry is the Albert G Milbank professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University

David Goodhart , the Editor of Prospect Magazine. "She doesn't seem to have an agenda beyond finding out what's happening and telling it straight and clear," said the panel.

David Goodheart - Editor, Prospect Magazine