Norman Cumming read Economics at Cambridge. After spells at HM Treasury and Shell, he spent most of his career in institutional investment management. He was global Head of Fixed Income for UBS Asset Management. He was a director of MetLife Assurance Ltd, and a trustee and head of the investment committee at UnLtd, the Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs.

In retirement he is a member of the investment committees of the Cambridge University Pension Scheme; and of Clare College (where he was architect of the College's scheme to borrow long term on an inflation-linked basis, so as to invest in global equities).

Professor the Baroness Alison Wolf DBE is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s College London. She sits as a cross-bench peer (Baroness Wolf of Dulwich) in the UK House of Lords. She specialises in the relationship between education and the labour market. She was the founding Chair of Governors of King’s College London Mathematics School, and remains a governor and vice-chair, and she is a trustee of the University Maths Schools Network.

Alison Wolf served in the No 10 Policy Unit, as a part-time expert adviser on skills and workforce to the UK Prime Minister, from February 2020 to February 2023. She was a panel member for the ‘Augar Review’: the independent Review of Post-18 Education and Funding chaired by Sir Philip Augar, which reported in 2019. In March 2011 she completed the Wolf Report which led to major reforms in vocational education for 14-18 year olds, and she was also a member of the Sainsbury Review which led to the creation of T-levels. Publications include The XX Factor and Does Education Matter?

James Lynch, portfolio manager, is a member of the global rates team and is responsible for co-managing the UK government bond, segregated absolute return bond, long government bond and inflation-linked government bond portfolios. He also co-manages a segregated pension mandate of an inflation linked and credit strategy. Prior to his current role, James worked for Morgan Stanley where he was a director in the OTC derivatives department. James has been in the industry since 2005 and started with the firm in 2012. James studied Economics at Stirling University and is a CFA charterholder.

Theodora Zemek has had a 40 year career in the City, largely in fixed income investment. She has managed portfolios for central banks, insurance and pensions companies and retail investors. She was formerly a Non Exec for BlackRock Fund Managers

Prior to her retirement, she was Global Head of Fixed Income for Axa Investment Managers, responsible for Euros 385 billion in assets.. She established the fixed income divisions of M and G Investment Management (1992) and New Star Asset Management (2001), having launched the first UK Corporate Bond unit trust and the first UK High Yield Corporate Bond Fund.

Theo received her PhD in History from Cambridge in 1985, with a thesis on the the influence of the Scottish Enlightenment (Smith and Ferguson) in France.

Ray Perman was a financial journalist for over 30 years on newspapers including the Financial Times and The Times. He is the author of four books, including The Rise & Fall of the City of Money, a financial history of Edinburgh, and HUBRIS, an account of the collapse of HBOS in 2009. His latest work is a biography of the Enlightenment geologist and businessman James Hutton. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and chair of court at the University of St Andrews.

A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow of Clare College Cambridge; emeritus A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in the University of Cambridge. Author, co-author, editor, co-editor of over 30 books, most recently the single-authored Thebes: the Forgotten City of Ancient Greece and Democracy: A Life. I hold three honorary degrees, am a Commander of the Order of Honour (Greece), and an Honorary Citizen of Sparti (modern Sparta).

Professor the Baroness Alison Wolf DBE is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s College London. She sits as a cross-bench peer (Baroness Wolf of Dulwich) in the UK House of Lords. She specialises in the relationship between education and the labour market. She was the founding Chair of Governors of King’s College London Mathematics School, and remains a governor and vice-chair, and she is a trustee of the University Maths Schools Network.

Alison Wolf served in the No 10 Policy Unit, as a part-time expert adviser on skills and workforce to the UK Prime Minister, from February 2020 to February 2023. She was a panel member for the ‘Augar Review’: the independent Review of Post-18 Education and Funding chaired by Sir Philip Augar, which reported in 2019. In March 2011 she completed the Wolf Report which led to major reforms in vocational education for 14-18 year olds, and she was also a member of the Sainsbury Review which led to the creation of T-levels. Publications include The XX Factor and Does Education Matter?

Ed Richards is a co-founder of Flint Global Ltd. Flint works with companies and other organisationswho seek to navigate successful developments in the policy, political and regulatory arenas. The company works globally from six offices across Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Ed works across a broad range of sectors including digital/tech and other network industries, as well as on general policy, competition, and regulatory issues.

Before co-founding Flint, Ed spent more than eight years as the Chief Executive of Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator. Earlier in his career Ed worked as an adviser to the UK Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street covering a wide range of domestic policy areas and helping to coordinate the introduction of significant legislation. Prior to this, he led the Corporate Strategy team at the BBC during the development of digital technology and services.

In addition to his position as Founding Partner at Flint, Ed is also Chair of Nesta, the social innovation charity and Chair of the Behavioural Insights Team (the Nudge Unit).

David is a regulatory expert and economist. He works at the interface of regulation, finance and infrastructure. He was Chief Executive of Ofwat, the economic regulator of the water sector in England and Wales 2021-25. Prior to this he held a number of senior roles at Ofwat including Executive Director leading the 2019 price review and Economics Director. Before Ofwat, David worked in economic regulation and competition in the telecommunications, energy and water sectors as a consultant and in Government in the UK and New Zealand."

Tim has 30 years experience working in investment management at firms including T. Rowe Price, SKAGEN Funds and, most recently, Storebrand Asset Management, a leading Norwegian, sustainability focused manager.  Tim headed up the UK business for Storebrand.
Tim is now focused on nature restoration, food and farming including wilding his family farm.

Rhian-Anwen Hamill is Director of Family Enterprise at the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital at London Business School and Managing Partner of RAH Partners, a family business advisory firm. She works with founders and privately owned businesses on matters of governance, succession planning, and next-generation preparation. Her experience comes from business, financial services, coaching, psychology, philanthropy, and the arts.

She writes on a wide range of issues affecting families, including coaching for succession planning, family office recruitment, and women in family enterprise. Her work has been published in Family Capital, Globe Law and Business, and STEP’s Family Office Journals. She is a respected speaker and facilitator at family business events.

Rhian has spent nearly 40 years immersed in financial and professional services, starting her career at Goldman Sachs, and since 2005, running her own firm, RAH Partners. She has also operated at board/C-suite level in the world of arts and philanthropy.

Jonathan Ford is a freelance writer. He was an editor and columnist at the Financial Times, and held senior editorial positions at Prospect Magazine, Reuters and Breakingviews. He now presents a podcast on financial and business history called A Long Time in Finance and writes a substack, Business Adventures.

City editor of the Daily Telegraph for 19 years, Neil has spent nearly all his working life in financial journalism, culminating in a weekly column for the Financial Times and a monthly column for The Oldie. He lives in London and is an enthusiastic, if mediocre, fly-fisherman. In addition to A Long Time In Finance podcast with Jonathan Ford, he writes a monthly column for The Oldie magazin

Ed Starling is Head of the Disputes Practice at Wedlake Bell and a specialist in insolvency, restructuring and commercial litigation.

He advises a wide range of stakeholders, including creditors, insolvency practitioners, LPA receivers, trustees in bankruptcy, companies, directors, lenders, shareholders, LLP members and purchasers of distressed assets.

Ed has extensive experience acting in claims brought by or against insolvency officeholders for the benefit of recovering sums for creditors.

In addition, Ed handles significant civil fraud matters, including investment and Ponzi‑style schemes, as well as cases involving dishonesty, misrepresentation and cross‑border jurisdiction issues.

Sir Martin Donnelly is a former Permanent Secretary with expertise in business, trade and global economic issues, and four decades of  experience shaping policy across Government and the private sector, in the UK and globally. He has worked in Brussels and Paris as well as London, and has written widely on international trade and economic issues, gender diversity and leadership. Martin is a part-time adviser to the Foreign Secretary on the UK's economic diplomacy, and senior independent director at the National Audit Office.' He lives in Bwlch, Powys. 

Ilias Alami is an Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge, where he writes about state capitalism, geopolitics, the green transition, and global finance. He is also the Director of the PhD programme in Development Studies. Prior to joining Cambridge, he held research and teaching positions at Uppsala University, Maastricht University, and Manchester University, and visiting positions at the University of Sydney, Sciences Po Paris, the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo, and the University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets: Facing the Liquidity Tsunami (Routledge, 2019) and co-author of The Spectre of State Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2024). Ilias is a fellow of the Transition Security Project, a research associate at the Second Cold War Observatory, and a member of Common Wealth's Green Planning Commission.

Nick Butler is an energy economist and Visiting Professor in the Policy Institute at Kings College London.  He was Group Vice President for Strategy and Policy at BP from 2002 to 2007 and subsequent senior policy adviser to Prime Minister Gordon Brown.   

The Rev’d. Dr. Lyndon Drake is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, following on from a DPhil in Theology from Oxford (2023) on economics and writing in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from York (2005). He is the operational lead for the Oxford Collaboration on Theology and Artificial Intelligence. Until 2024, he served as the Māori Anglican Archdeacon of Tāmaki Makaurau in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Lyndon also has degrees in science and commerce (Auckland) and two previous degrees in theology (Oxford), along with peer-reviewed publications in science and theology. Until 2010, Lyndon was a Vice President at Barclays Capital, trading interest-rate products. Since then, he has served in church ministry, as well as teaching theology and holding other leadership roles, including as chair of Te Whare Ruruhau o Meri Trust Board (a charity working to reduce family harm and sexual violence).

Dr. Janusz Marecki is an AI Partner at Ahren Innovation Capital ($1B of capital committed) and an AGI director at Agile Loop. Prior to that, he was a lead scientist at Google DeepMind, a senior scientist at IBM Watson, a principal at Pasteur Labs, a researcher at the European Laboratory for Nuclear Research (CERN), a research associate at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, an advisor to the US NSF and a full professor at the Academy of Computer Sciences in Poland. Janusz has habilitation rights and holds two separate Ph.D degrees: In AI from from the University of Southern California and in mathematical modeling from the Scientific and Research Institute of Information Infrastructure in Ukraine. An author of over 100 refereed publications and 7 patents and a recipient of a commendation from the LA Airport Police, a commendation from the Department of Homeland Security and an Invention Award from IBM CEOs, Janusz's research interests are in neural networks and reinforcement learning.

Ed Richards is a co-founder of Flint Global Ltd. Flint works with companies and other organisationswho seek to navigate successful developments in the policy, political and regulatory arenas. The company works globally from six offices across Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Ed works across a broad range of sectors including digital/tech and other network industries, as well as on general policy, competition, and regulatory issues.

Before co-founding Flint, Ed spent more than eight years as the Chief Executive of Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator. Earlier in his career Ed worked as an adviser to the UK Prime Minister in 10 Downing Street covering a wide range of domestic policy areas and helping to coordinate the introduction of significant legislation. Prior to this, he led the Corporate Strategy team at the BBC during the development of digital technology and services.

In addition to his position as Founding Partner at Flint, Ed is also Chair of Nesta, the social innovation charity and Chair of the Behavioural Insights Team (the Nudge Unit).

Mark Oliver is Chairman and Founder of Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates the leading independent strategic adviser to the media, sports and entertainment sectors, which he set up in 1995.

Prior to that he was the BBC’s first Head of Strategy for six years. He began his career as an anti-trust and regulatory economist, first with NERA Inc and then with PWC. Mark writes widely on strategic, commercial, investment and policy issues concerning the media and sport industries and has advised on many of the major events affecting the sector. Clients have included the BBC, the Premier League, UEFA, CVC, KKR, Arctos, Redbird,Manchester United, Liverpool, ITV, Channel 4, WBD, Sky, Liberty Global, BT, Bein Sports.

Charlotte Henry is a journalist covering tech, media and politics. Her byline has appeared in publications including City AM, the Independent on Sunday, The Times Red Box, the Telegraph, the TLS. The author runs her own media outlet, The Addition, which gives insight into the crossover of media, technology and culture. The author is based in London, UK

Charlie Methven is a sports industry executive and consultant, currently acting as a director of football clubs in Belgium, Jamaica and England.After graduating from Oxford University in 1998, he embarked upon a successful career in journalism, becoming a columnist at the Daily Telegraph in his late 20s. After switching to become a communications consultant, he went on to specialise in the Sports industry, advising - amongst others - the Jockey Club, McLaren F1, the state of Qatar, Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal PLC.In 2018, with two colleagues Methven became co-owner and executive director of Sunderland AFC, then in English football's 3^rd tier. Following a successful turnaround, he sold his stake in 2022, before going onto lead a similar takeover of Charlton Athletic FC, which he left after the club was promoted to the Championship in May 2025. He is currently a director of Mount Pleasant in Jamaica, RAEC Mons in Belgium and Walton&Hersham FC in London, as well as co-hosting industry podcast The Business of Sport.