Amie Ferris-Rotman is an award-winning journalist, based in Moscow, who currently writes for Foreign Policy. She previously reported for The Wall Street Journal and Reuters from across Russia and the former Soviet Union

Xinran is a popular radio personality in China, who had a call-in programme named Words on the Night Breeze from 1989 to 1997. She is also the author of several bestselling books, including The Good Women of China, China Witness and Buy Me the Sky.

Peter Bazalgette is executive chairman of ITV and former chair of Arts Council England. He is author of The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society (John Murray), which was published in January 2017.