Her forthcoming projects include The Whistleblowers, a podcast for iHeartMedia about the dissenters from the Trump administration; an investigative crime docuseries for HBO produced by Imagine Entertainment; and a short documentary on tenants’ rights in Kansas City for Time.

A past president of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, he has also litigated and advised in many Commonwealth jurisdictions. He is the co-chair of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute. In his private practice, he has created a niche in international comparative law and regulation, most recently informing the Lawfare and SLAPP public policy debates and defending cases. He acts in many Privy Council cases, as well as before international courts, committees, and tribunals.

Stephens has been appointed by the Foreign Secretary to the FCDO Free Expression advisory board. In 2018, he became board chair of Internews Europe, an international charity dedicated to freedom of expression and trusted media.

Before starting Project Brazen, Hope spent seven years breaking stories and leading investigations at the Wall Street Journal in New York and London. Prior to that, he covered the Arab Spring from Cairo, Tripoli, and Beirut. He began his career as a police reporter at The New York Sun in Manhattan. Hope is a Pulitzer finalist, Peabody nominee, and a winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for International Reporting.

Viner gave the 2013 AN Smith Lecture in Journalism at the University of Melbourne, The Rise of the Reader, discussing journalism in the age of the open web, and a speech on Truth and Reality in a Hyper-Connected World as part of the Oxford University Women of Achievement Lecture Series in May 2016. She is the winner of the Diario Madrid prize for journalism for her 2016 long read, How Technology Disrupted the Truth.

Sarma has played a key role in the changes in law and regulation affecting journalism and free speech in the UK, campaigning for protections for journalism. She has defended and won significant cases for Times Newspapers Limited that have strengthened the law supporting public interest journalism including Hunt v TNL, Cruddas v TNL, and Yeo v TNL. She sued Lance Armstrong for recovery of libel damages paid to him after he admitted cheating. She is chair of the London Media Lawyers’ Association, an organisation representing UK broadcasters and publishers.

Before she joined The Financial Times, she was head of technology at The Daily Telegraph, and an associate editor at WIRED magazine. She was the 2017 Laurence Stern Fellow, spending three months at The Washington Post, reporting from across the US on issues including technology and health policy. 

Murgia holds two Masters degrees, one in science journalism from New York University and one in clinical immunology from Oxford University.

Naughtie was named journalist of the year at the 1984 Scottish Press Awards; he won the Sony Radio Awards Radio Personality of the Year in 1991 and the Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award in 2001. He has written a number of books on subjects such as politics, music, and history, as well as spy fiction. His most recent non-fiction book is On the Road: American Adventures from Nixon to Trump – an account of five decades of travel and work in the US.

Williams is Chair of Aspen UK and serves on a number of other boards, including the Royal College of Art, the Woolf Institute in Cambridge, International Crisis Group’s Advisory Council, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, and The New European. He has an honorary fellowship from Goldsmiths University and is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s AMP programme. He started his career in newspaper and television journalism.

In August 2021, Hakim led BBC World News coverage of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the collapse of the Afghan government, and the Taliban’s return to power. Just days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she began reporting from the Ukrainian city of Lviv. She has reported from some of the world’s most dangerous places, including Iraq, South Sudan, and Eritrea.

Hakim has secured a number of high-profile interviews for the BBC. She was the first international journalist to interview US Secretary of State Antony Blinken; and her interview with President Trump’s National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster made global headlines when he accepted that Russia had interfered in the 2016 US elections.