John Jay
John Jay is a former managing editor for business news, at The Sunday Times and the author of Facing Fearful Odds: My father’s story of captivity, escape and resistance 1940-1945. Ninette’s War is his third book. He lives in London with his family.
Richard K. Lowy
Richard K. Lowy, an internationally acclaimed producer/creative director, has created award-winning global events featuring world leaders and iconic artists. Yet, his most profound work began upon uncovering his father’s harrowing Holocaust past. This led him to produce Leo’s Journey: The Story of the Mengele Twins, narrated by EGOT-winner Christopher Plummer, which sparked an extraordinary reunion—his father […]
Emily Kasriel
Emily Kasriel’s book, Deep Listening: Transform your Relationships with Family, Friends and Foes, will be published by HarperCollins in the UK and USA May/June 2025. Her distinguished career at the BBC for over two decades included roles as an award-winning journalist, editor and media executive. She developed the Deep Listening approach as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow […]
Alice Sherwood
Alice Sherwood is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at The Policy Institute at King’s College London and author of the award-wining Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture (Harper Collins, 2022). She has served as a judge of the Wingate Literary Prize, and as a trustee of the London Library and the Hay Festival Foundation. […]
Anthony Seldon
Sir Anthony Seldon is an educator, historian, writer and commentator. A former headmaster and vice chancellor, he is author or editor of over fifty books on contemporary history, politics and education. He’s been co-founder of Action for Happiness and the Institute of Contemporary British History, and is founder of the Museum of the Prime Minister.
Francine Stock
Francine Stock is a broadcaster, critic and writer who has fronted a range of arts and current affairs programmes for BBC Television and Radio including Newsnight, Front Row and The Film Programme. Her published work includes novels, short stories and a social history of cinema, In Glorious Technicolor
Zoe Strimpel
Zoe Strimpel is a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph and a regular contributor to the Spectator, Times Radio and Radio 4. She has PhD in modern British history from Sussex. Image © Bill Knight
Natasha Hausdorff
Natasha Hausdorff is a Barrister and expert commentator on international law, including the law of armed conflict, foreign affairs and national security policy. She regularly briefs politicians and international organisations and has spoken at Parliaments across Europe and at the United Nations. She serves as legal director of UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust.
Gemma Seltzer
Gemma Seltzer is a London-based writer and creative facilitator. She is the author of two short story collections, including Ways of Living (Influx Press, 2021), a Foyles bestseller and a featured title in JW3’s Modern Jewish Literature series. Her storytelling spans forms and platforms: she wrote Songbird, an award-winning virtual reality film for the Guardian; […]
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford.
Philip Rubenstein
Philip Rubenstein was director of the Parliamentary War Crimes Group, which campaigned to bring to justice Nazi war criminals living in the UK, and founder-director of the Holocaust Educational Trust. Today he works with family businesses. He also lectures on history, politics and film.
Aviva Dautch
Dr Aviva Dautch is the Executive Director of Jewish Renaissance, the UK’s quarterly Jewish arts magazine, and the inaugural Vera Fine-Grodzinski Research Fellow in Jewish Women’s Voices at Oxford University. An award-winning poet, academic and regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, she has worked as an educator for many of the major London cultural institutions […]