Professor Nick Bosanquet

Professor Bosanquet is a consultant Director at the Reform think tank and a Professor at Imperial College London.

Sir John Bourn KCB

Sir John was Comptroller and Auditor General of the National Audit Office from 1988-2008, has served as Chairman of the Professional Oversight Board, is a member of the Board of the Financial Reporting Council and is a Patron of the Foundation for Governance, Research and Education .

Philip Collins

Philip Collins is a writer on The Times, a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Chair of the Demos Board of Trustees. He was, until July 2007, Chief Speech Writer to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in 10 Downing Street.

Claire Fox

Claire Fox is the director of the Institute of Ideas , which she established to create a public space where ideas can be contested without constraint and as such, contributes regularly to the media and convenes an annual Battle of Ideas festival.

Angela Knight CBE

Ms Knight, became an MP in 1992 and was Economic Secretary to the Treasury between 1995 and 1997. She was the Chief Executive of the Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers from September 1997 to December 2006.She is currently the Chief Executive of the British Bankers Association.

Paul Ormerod

Paul Ormerod is an economist, best-selling author and director of Volterra Consulting. His website is www.paulormerod.com.

Stephen Pollard

Stephen Pollard is editor of the Jewish Chronicle and has been a journalist and leader writer for the Daily Express, the Times and is a former President of the Centre for New Europe in Brussels and the Fabian Society.

Professor Garel Rhys CBE

Professor Rhys is widely acknowledged as the world’s leading economist on the motor industry. He is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cardiff University.

Ashley Seager

Ashley Seager has been the Guardian’s economics correspondent since 2004, covering the British and global economies as well as trade and debt relief issues. Before joining the Guardian, Ashley worked for 14 years at Reuters.

David Smith

David Smith is Economics Editor of the Sunday Times, London and an author of many popular economics books including Free Lunch and most recently, The Dragon and the Elephant . His personal site is www.economicsuk.com .

Professor David B. Smith

David was the Chief Economist at London stockbrokers Williams de Broë plc from 1982 until his retirement in July 2006. David is currently a Visiting Professor in Business and Economic Forecasting at the University of Derby and Acting Chairman of the Shadow Monetary Policy Committee run by the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA).

Professor Michael Stuermer

Professor Stuermer is Chief Correspondent at Die Welt newspaper in Berlin. In the 1980s Prof. Stuermer was an adviser and speechwriter to Chancellor Kohl and his most recent book, Putin And The Rise Of Russia was published in 2008.

Giles Wilkes

Giles is since 2006, Chief Economist of CentreForum. After graduating from Oxford in Politics, philosophy and economics, Giles worked briefly in publishing before spending 10 years in a variety of roles at IG group, a specialist in financial derivatives. Along the way he recieved an MBA from London Business School. After leaving in 2006 he acquired a Masters in Global History from the LSE.