Ekow Eshun.
Ekow Eshun is the Artistic Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. He is also a cultural commentator and an award-winning broadcaster who appears regularly on BBC 2’s Newsnight Review. He is a contributor to publications including the Guardian, the Observer, the Sunday Times, Vogue and the New Statesman. Eshun became the youngest ever editor of a men’s magazine when he became editor of Arena magazine at the age of 28. He is the author of the memoir Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for home in Africa and England (Penguin,
Clare Fox.
Claire Fox is the director of the Institute of Ideas (IoI), which she established to create a public space where ideas can be contested without constraint. Claire initiated the IoI while co-publisher of the controversial and ground-breaking current affairs journal LM magazine (formerly Living Marxism). The IoI has since worked with a variety of prestigious institutions in Britain and abroad. Claire convenes the IoI's flagship event, the yearly Battle of Ideas festival, which will next take place in London at the end of October 2010. The IoI has also established the prestigious Debating Matters competition for sixth form students in the India under Claire's direction.
Peter Gingold
Peter Gingold is the Founder and now Co-Director of TippingPoint. He has had a very varied career, including spending a number of years working in low cost housing in developing countries, founding an electronics business in the silicon fen, and working as a management consultant. He became Chief Executive of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in 2001, and subsequently led the artistic side of Liverpool’s successful bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2008. He now works exclusively on the subject of climate change, and has been exploring its cultural side since TippingPoint started five years ago.
Daniel Glaser.
Dr Daniel Glaser is Head of Special Projects in public engagement at the Wellcome Trust. His team directs activities with young people inside and outside school, considers education policy, engages with the broadcast media and examines interactions between scientists and non-scientists of all sorts.
In 2002 he was appointed ‘Scientist in Residence’ at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. This was the first appointment of its kind at an arts institution. In 2005 he was in the first cohort to receive a Cultural Leadership Award from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA).
As well as presenting a television series for the BBC on how science really works, he has made numerous appearances on national and local radio and has featured in articles in daily newspapers. He co-chairs the Café Scientifique at the Photographers’ Gallery which is the London branch of a national series providing a new way for scientists to interact with a general public.
Drew Hemment
Drew Hemment is Director and founder of FutureEverything, an art, technology and social innovation organisation that runs year-round innovation labs and an annual festival of art, music and ideas (May 12-15). He is also Associate Director of ImaginationLancaster, a major new creative research lab at Lancaster University. Hemment's artistic and curatorial work has been covered prominently by New York Times, BBC and NBC. He was Winner of the Lever Prize 2010, shortlisted for Big Chip International Award for Innovation 2010, and received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2008. He has curated numerous exhibitions on art and social technologies, including the first major art exhibition on mobile and locative media (Mobile Connections, 2004) and the first major art exhibition on social networking (Social Networking Unplugged, 2008). Drew has served on many international Art Juries including the International Jury of UNESCO DigiArts Award, and was the first international curator on the Programming Group of the Sonar festival in Barcelona. He was a key figure in the emergence of the field of Locative Media, was involved in seminal parties in late 1980s UK electronic dance culture, and was the DJ at the biggest peace time mass arrest in British history. He completed an MA (Distinction) at the University of Warwick, and a PhD at Lancaster University.
Stewart Wallis.
Stewart graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. His career began in marketing and sales with Rio Tinto Zinc followed by a Masters Degree in Business and Economics at London Business School. He then joined the World Bank in Washington DC working on industrial and financial development in East Asia. His seven years at the World Bank also included a spell as Administrator of the Young Professionals Programme. He then worked for Robinson Packaging in Derbyshire for nine years, the last five as Managing Director. Stewart joined Oxfam in 1992 as International Director with responsibility, latterly, for 2,500 staff in 70 countries and for all Oxfam's policy, research, development and emergency work worldwide. He was awarded the OBE for services to Oxfam in 2002.
Sandy Nairne.
Sandy Nairne is currently Director of the National Portrait Gallery. He was Director: Programmes at Tate for eight years working alongside Nicholas Serota in the building of Tate Modern and the Centenary Development at Tate Britain. He was also directly responsible for the development of international and digital programmes, the Tate Partnership Scheme and the co-ordination of Tate public programmes as a whole
He has worked previously as Assistant Director, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Director of Exhibitions at the ICA and Director of Visual Arts for the Arts Council of Great Britain. In 1993 he was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the J.Paul Getty Trust, and in 2007 was a Visiting Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass..
Lola Young.
Baroness Young is a freelance Arts and Heritage Consultant.
Baroness Young’s career as an academic has been notable for her rapid rise from lecturer to professor, and for the extent of peer recognition of her achievements. She has published over 25 articles and essays, encompassing academic literature and articles in national newspapers. During her time at Middlesex University, she was seconded to work as Project Director at the Archives and Museum of Black Heritage, a Heritage Lottery Funded Initiative. She has also made numerous other contributions to books and at conferences. She has been a member of several Quality Assurance Agency subject reviews as a specialist assessor, and was a member of a Research Assessment Exercise Panel.
Lola Young was awarded an OBE in 2001 and appointed a life peer in the House of Lords in 2004.
