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Gillian is a writer, speaker and broadcaster. She is the author of the most recent biography, John Evelyn; Living for Ingenuity (Yale University Press, 2006), shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography prize.
Lord Peter Ricketts retired from the Diplomatic Service in January 2016. He was British Ambassador to France between February 2012 and January 2016. Before this posting, he was the British Government’s first National Security Adviser and, from 2006 until 2010
Professor Thurley is a leading architectural historian, a regular broadcaster and was, for thirteen years and Visiting Gresham Professor of the Built Environment.
Professor Dame Valerie Beral was an epidemiologist, academic and a preeminent specialist in breast cancer epidemiology. She was Professor of Epidemiology, a Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford and was the Head of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University
Professor Agathe Keller is based at CNRS / Université Paris Cité, where she works on the mathematical practices testified by Sanskrit treatises and commentaries dating from the 5th-14th centuries. She is currently working on a critical edition of Caturveda Pṛthūdakṣvamin
Jane Ridley is a historian, biographer, broadcaster, and Professor of Modern History at the University of Buckingham. She has been in charge of the University's Master of Arts course in Biography since establishing it in 1996. This was the first