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Alexandre Pesey is a French civic entrepreneur and director of the Institut de Formation Politique (IFP), dedicated to fostering leadership and freedom in Europe. A sought-after speaker, he mentors young leaders and lives near Paris with his wife, Kate, and six children.

Arthur C. Brooks is a Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership and happiness. He is also a columnist at The Atlantic where he writes the How to Build a Life column, a public speaker, and the bestselling author of 13 books.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, founder of the AHA Foundation, and host of The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast. Born in Somalia, she served as a member of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006. Ayaan is also the founder of www.restorationbulletin.com.

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of Honestly. She is the winner of the LA Press Club's 2021 Daniel Pearl Award, Reason Foundation’s 2018 Bastiat Prize, and The Dao Prize for The Free Press’s work on the Twitter Files. In 2019, Vanity Fair called Weiss the Times's "star opinion writer."

Bishop Robert Barron is the bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester (Minnesota, USA). He is a theologian, speaker, author, and the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.

Dr Bjorn Lomborg researches the smartest ways to do good. With his think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus, he has worked to find and promote the most effective solutions to the world’s greatest challenges, from disease and hunger to climate and education.

Brendan McCord is Founder and Chair of the Cosmos Institute, an academy developing philosopher-builders. He established the first U.S. Department of Defense-wide applied AI organisation and was founding CEO of two AI companies acquired for $400 million.

Daniel Hannan (Lord Hannan of Kingsclere) is a columnist, a Conservative peer and President of the Institute for Free Trade. He spent 21 years in the European Parliament, founded Vote Leave, and has written nine books, including How we Invented Freedom.

David Brooks is a bestselling author, columnist for The New York Times, and a contributor to The Atlantic. He is also a commentator on The PBS Newshour. His latest book is How To Know A Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen.

Douglas Murray is a bestselling author and journalist. His books include The Strange Death of Europe, The War on the West, and his forthcoming book (April) On Democracies and Death Cults. He has been an Associate Editor at The Spectator magazine since 2012 and contributes regularly to many publications and news channels.

Erica Komisar is a clinical social worker, author, psychoanalyst, psychological consultant and parent guidance expert who has been in private practice in New York City for over 30 years.

Ian Rowe is author of Agency, a framework (F.R.E.E.) empowering young people to overcome the victimhood narrative; an American Enterprise Institute senior fellow; and Founder of Vertex Partnership Academies, an International Baccalaureate school organised around Courage, Justice, Temperance, and Wisdom.

Jeffrey Rosen is the President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts We the People, a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. Rosen’s new book is the New York Times bestselling The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America.

John Mackey is the co-founder of Whole Foods Market and Conscious Capitalism, author of multiple books, including Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business and The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism, and is pursuing his next venture, Love.Life.

Dr Jordan B Peterson is a clinical psychologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. Dr Peterson penned the global bestsellers Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life and 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. His new book, We Who Wrestle With God, was published in late 2024.

Katalin Novák is a mother of three and a former President of Hungary, being the first woman to hold this position. She was Minister for Family Affairs and served as a member of the Hungarian Parliament for several years. She co-founded XY Worldwide, which aims to change negative demographic trends.

The Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP is the Leader of the British Conservative & Unionist Party and Leader of HM Opposition. She has served as the Member of Parliament for North West Essex, previously Saffron Walden, since 2017.

Konstantin Kisin is a Sunday Times bestselling author, satirist, social commentator, and creator and co-host of free speech podcast TRIGGERnometry. In 2022, he published An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West.

Louis Mosley is an Executive Vice President at Palantir Technologies. He oversees Palantir's business in the UK & Europe, including Palantir's UK Government engagements. His responsibilities include Palantir’s defence engagements in Ukraine and across Europe. Prior to Palantir, Louis worked in finance. Louis graduated from the University of Oxford in 2006.

Makoto Fujimura is a leading contemporary artist whose work has been featured in galleries and museums around the world. He has also authored 4 books, Art+Faith: A Theology of Making, Silence and Beauty, Refractions, and Culture Care.

Michael Gove is the Editor of The Spectator. A former Member of Parliament for Surrey Heath and UK Government Cabinet Minister, he served in Cabinet across five government departments for more than a decade.

Michael Shellenberger is the C.B.R. Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech at the University of Austin, a Time Magazine "Hero of the Environment", Dao Journalism Prize winner, Founder of Public.News, and the best-selling author of Apocalypse Never and San Fransicko.

Mike Johnson is the 56th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Mike is a dedicated husband and father and attorney. He spent 20 years litigating high profile constitutional law cases in courts nationwide. He and his wife Kelly have four children, Hannah, Abigail, Jack and Will.

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History.

Nigel Farage is the Leader of Reform UK and MP for Clacton. Since his return to front line politics, Nigel led the new party to secure over 4 million votes in the 2024 General Election and has a growing membership of over 185,000.

Oren Cass is the founder and chief economist of American Compass and author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America (2018). He is a contributing opinion writer for the Financial Times and the New York Times.

Os Guinness is an author and social critic. He holds a DPhil from Oxford University, has been a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was the lead drafter of The Global Charter of Freedom of Conscience and Religion.

Sir Paul Marshall is CIO and Chairman of Marshall Wace LLP, and founder and owner of OQS Media, the holding company for UnHerd and The Spectator. He is also a lead investor in GB News Ltd. He is a founding Trustee of Ark, the children’s charity.

Pete Richardson has guided 1,000+ individuals and hundreds of organisations through the Paterson Process over the last 25+ years. He dedicates his time to clients and process innovation. Pete and Janet live in Colorado, have two adult children, and a tribe of grandchildren.

Peter Thiel is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded PayPal and Palantir, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and has funded companies like SpaceX and Stripe. Peter also started the Thiel Foundation, which advances technological progress and long-term thinking.

Baroness Philippa Stroud is co-founder and CEO of ARC, Member of the House of Lords, and Chair of the Social Metrics Commission. Prior to this, she was the CEO of the Legatum Institute and Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Centre for Social Justice. She served as Special Adviser to The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP from 2010-15 and to the Prime Minister from 2012.

Professor Richard Gilbertson is the Li Ka Shing Chair of Oncology, Head of Department of Oncology, Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre and Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge.

Robert Bryce is an author, journalist, and filmmaker, who writes about energy, power, innovation, and politics. He has authored six books on energy and innovation, including most recently, A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations. He is also the co-producer of the docuseries, Juice: Power, Politics & The Grid.

Dr Scott Tinker is a global energy explorer and educator working to address major societal challenges in energy, environment, and economy. His career in industry, academia, and governments underpins his filmmaking, television, and radio programs featured across the US and globe. Scott is CEO of Tinker Energy Associates and Chairman of the nonprofit Switch Energy Alliance.

Sophie Winkleman is an actress and patron of several charities, including CURE International, the Children’s Surgery Foundation, and School-Home Support. She serves on the board for a chain of academy schools in the UK and campaigns against screens for children.

Stephen J Shaw is a data scientist, demographer, and filmmaker behind the Birthgap documentary. He is also co-founder of X·Y Worldwide, the first global nonprofit addressing the birthrate crisis. Stephen's research focuses on Unplanned Childlessness, parenthood timing, and the societal impacts of demographic change.

The Hon. Tony Abbott AC served as the 28th Prime Minister of Australia. His administration repealed taxes, secured borders, and finalised free trade agreements with China, Japan and Korea. He is a director of FOX Corporation, the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, and serves on the council of the Australian War Memorial.

Vivek Ramaswamy is a former Republican presidential candidate in the USA. He is an entrepreneur, political and cultural thought leader, author, and founder of Strive Asset Management.

Alan Miller is the co-founder and chair of The Together Association. Together is committed to ensuring the public is at the heart of politics: engaged, active, and transformative. Together has changed national policy and is committed to Open Public Debate, upholding Freedom Liberties and Democratic Accountability.

Dr Amy Orr-Ewing is an author, speaker, and theologian. She has authored multiple books including Where is God in All the Suffering? and Why Trust the Bible?. Amy holds a DPhil in Theology from the University of Oxford and serves as Honorary Lecturer in Divinity at the University Aberdeen.

Archbishop Angaelos is Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London, and Papal Legate to the United Kingdom. Conferred an OBE for ‘Services to International Religious Freedom,’ Lambeth Cross for Ecumenism, and Coventry Cross of Nails for Reconciliation, he also serves youth worldwide.

Alex Story is a businessman, social commentator, and British Olympic rower. Alex is the founder of Sed Vera, which deals with VC and Private Equity funds. He has been involved in British Politics for over two decades.

Austin Bishop is CEO and co-founder of the New American Industrial Alliance, and General Partner at the venture fund Tamarack Global, where he invests across AI, energy, aerospace, and national security. He is a former hedge fund quant-trader, and co-founder of AI-powered manufacturing company Atomic Industries.

Hon. Candice Bergen is the former Leader of the Canadian Official Opposition and Conservative Party of Canada. She was a Member of Parliament for 15 years serving in Stephen Harper’s cabinet as well as Opposition House Leader, Deputy Leader, and Shadow Minister for Natural Resources.

Charlie Peters is a presenter and national reporter at GB News. He covers home and social affairs and is best known for his investigations into Britain's grooming gangs scandal.

Chris Barnard is President of the American Conservation Coalition (ACC). He also serves on the Youth Advisory Council for the Republican Party. He has been widely published in the American news media and has spoken at multiple international conferences.

Chris Lunsford, known as Oliver Anthony, rose to fame with his hit Rich Men North of Richmond, highlighting working-class struggles. He champions rural America through music, advocacy, and the Rural Revival Project, focusing on unity, traditional values, and grassroots change.

Chris Power is the Founder and CEO of Hadrian, a company transforming U.S. defence and aerospace manufacturing. Hadrian builds highly automated factories that solve critical production bottlenecks for defence primes, new entrants, and commercial customers.

Chris Uhlmann is an award-winning journalist, author, and former political editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Nine News. He spent 19 years with the ABC in a range of roles on radio and TV, and won a Walkley Award for broadcast interviewing in 2008. 

Dave Rubin is a New York Times bestselling author, comedian, and TV personality best known for his political commentary. He is the host of The Rubin Report, a top-ranking talk show recognised as one of the most influential spaces for candid conversations about politics, culture, personal health, wellness, and more.

David Frost (Lord Frost of Allenton) was Europe adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Minister for EU relations. He is now a Conservative member of the House of Lords, writer, and commentator. He is a former British diplomat.

David Stroud is the co-founder of Forum, a network of senior leaders working to bring about positive change. He is Founding Pastor of Christ Church London and co-founder of the Everything Network.

Erik Prince is an American businessman, investor, and former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, and the founder of the private military company Blackwater. He also founded the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group and was chairman until 2021. He is host of the podcast Off Leash.

Freddie Sayers is publisher of The Spectator, UnHerd, and Apollo magazines. He hosts the UnHerd interview show on YouTube. Prior to this, he was Editor-in-Chief of YouGov and founder of PoliticsHome..

Gabriel Kanner is a businessman and founder of In Search of Truth, an enterprise focused on teaching classical education, philosophy, and history to business leaders.

Gerard Holland is the CEO of the Page Research Centre in Australia. Previously, Gerard was the Director of Outreach and Strategic Partnerships at ARC and an electorate officer for the former Deputy Leader of the Australian National Party The Hon. Fiona Nash.

Greg Sheridan AO has been the Australian’s foreign editor since 1992 and has written eight books. His journalism has appeared all over the world, and he appears frequently on television and radio. Mostly his books have concerned international affairs, with two on Christianity.

Gregory Bernstein is the Co-Founder and CEO of The New Industrial Corporation, an investment company that specialises in project development at the intersection of venture and infrastructure capital. He is the Co-Founder of Reindustrialize, has been a venture capitalist with both EQT Group and Acequia Capital, and a ship captain in the U.S. Coast Guard.

Dr Gudrun Kugler is a Member of the Austrian Parliament for the Austrian People’s Party and is the party spokesperson for displaced people and human rights. Gudrun is also an entrepreneur, a mother of four, and holds several positions in the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE.

Heather R. Higgins is CEO of Independent Women’s Voice, where she applies her Suasion Insights, LLC’s proprietary messaging discipline to achieve outsized results with swing voters, particularly women, independents, and millennials. She lives in Manhattan with her husband.

Hinae Niori founded the nonprofit organization Manma in 2013, creating programs to help young people consider life plans, including marriage and parenting. She also serves on a government panel addressing issues related to the declining birthrate.

James Poulos is a tech theorist and media practitioner. He is editor at large at Blaze Media and co-founder of husband-and-wife production house Gun Girl Creative. He has written three books and holds a PhD in Government from Georgetown University.

Jeffrey Harmon is Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer of Angel Studios, the studio behind hits like Sound of Freedom. He played a key role in developing the Pay It Forward ticket model and the Angel Guild, a growing membership of over 675k, which greenlights films for release.

Dr Johannes Hartl is a German philosopher, theologian, speaker, and author. He is considered one of the most influential mediators between Christian spirituality, philosophy, and psychology in the German-speaking area.

The Hon. John Anderson AC FTSE served as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia for 6 years between 1999 and 2005 alongside The Hon. John Howard OM AC SSI. He now serves in a broad variety of civic and community pursuits and hosts Australia’s pre-eminent politico-cultural video podcast.

Jonathan Pageau is an artist, writer and public speaker. He is a pioneer in the revival of Liturgical Art for the 21st century. Through his podcast, The Symbolic World, he fosters the rediscovery of symbolic thinking and a vision for re-enchantment in the world.

Joshua Luke Smith is a poet for the people. He is a songwriter, community builder, podcaster and author. He founded Orphan No More, a record label and creative community, and The Psalmists, a charity helping the lives of offenders through creative expression.

Kamran Gulamov is a Member of the Board of Directors at AKFA Group (Healthcare and Education) and Rector of Central Asian University (CAU). Based in Uzbekistan, he fosters innovation, global collaboration, and regional development through advanced technologies and transformative leadership in education and healthcare.

Katy Faust is founder and President of Them Before Us, a global non-profit defending children’s rights in matters of marriage and family. She has also authored the books Them Before Us, Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City, and Pro-Child Politics.

Dr Kevin Roberts is the president of The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America, and the bestselling author of Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America. He previously served as the CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation and president of Wyoming Catholic College.

Magatte Wade is an entrepreneur and advocate for African dignity and prosperity. She is the co-founder of Prospera Africa, creating next generation special economic zones with their own law and governance. She is a Senior Fellow at Atlas Network. Her first book, The Heart of a Cheetah, was published in 2023.

Matt Ridley's books include The Red Queen, Genome, The Rational Optimist and How Innovation Works. He has been a columnist for the Times, Telegraph, and Wall Street Journal. He sat in the House of Lords until 2021 and served on the science and technology select committee.

Melissa Chen is the director of a business intelligence firm specialising in analysing China risk. As a Singaporean immigrant to the West, she offers public commentary about the complexities of China's rise and its global impact on the free world.

Mary Harrington is a British columnist, author, and contributing editor at UnHerd. Her first book, titled Feminism Against Progress, argues that the modern understanding of “progress” is turning against all but a tiny elite of women.

Michael Solana is the Chief Marketing Officer at Founders Fund where he runs creating programming, including the 'Anatomy of Next' podcast. He is also the founder of Pirate Wires, a media company focused on the intersection of technology, politics, and culture.

Miriam Cates is a TV presenter for GB News and the former Conservative Member of the UK Parliament for Penistone and Stocksbridge. Miriam campaigns on issues around children and families, with particular focus on safeguarding, issues of age-appropriate sex education and gender ideology in schools.

Neal Harmon is CEO and co-founder of Angel Studios, known for hits like Sound of Freedom and DryBar Comedy. Founded in 2013, Angel Studios has built a powerful platform for stories that amplify light and empowers audiences to decide which stories to release. Neal's background includes founding Orabrush and Harmon Brothers.

Peta Credlin AO is the host of Credlin, the number one Sky News Australia programme. She is a lawyer, a weekly national columnist for News Corp and a board director at the Robert Menzies Institute and Quadrant. She is the former Chief of Staff to Prime Minister The Hon. Tony Abbott.

Peter Costello AC was Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Australia for a record term and brought down 12 Federal Budgets. He established Australia’s Sovereign Fund, the Future Fund, which he went on to Chair for a decade. He has also been Chairman of the largest Australian media company.

Rob Henderson is the best-selling author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class. A Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, his Substack newsletter is sent each week to more than 70,000 subscribers.

Rod Dreher is a journalist and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Benedict Option (2017) and Live Not By Lies (2020). His most recent book is Living In Wonder (2024). Dreher lives in Budapest.

Known widely as ‘America’s Michelangelo,’ Master Sculptor Sabin Howard designed and sculpted A Soldier’s Journey, the sculptural heart of the National WWI Memorial.

Scott W. Atlas, MD is Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and Global Liberty Institute co-founder. From August to November 2020, he was Advisor to the President and on the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

Thorsten Alsleben has been Managing Director of the major German thinktank INSM since April 2023. Previously, he was Managing Director of the Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsunion and worked at both the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the management consultancy Kienbaum as their capital representative.

Toby Young is a British journalist and campaigner. He is the founder and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, an associate editor of The Spectator and the editor-in-chief of the Daily Sceptic. He was made a life peer in 2024.

Tsitsi Masiyiwa is an African philanthropist, social entrepreneur, and champion for gender equality. She is the Co-Founder and Chair of Higherlife Foundation and Delta Philanthropies, both dedicated to advancing human capital development across Africa.

Virginia Tapscott is a parenting advocate and columnist based on a farm in Southern NSW. She has worked on podcasts, columns, and features with a range of national media platforms and co-founded the Parents Work Collective, which advocates for better support systems for parents.

Vlatko Gjorchev is the National coordinator for demography, youth, and human resources in the Government of Northern Macedonia. He covers the issues of birth rate, population decline, and shrinking workforce. He was a Member of Parliament for 15 years (2006-2020) and is married, father of 4 children.

Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO is an Australian businessman and political strategist. He is the Director of the Indigenous Forum at the Centre for Independent Studies and was a lead campaigner for the successful "No" campaign in the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum.

Dr William Inboden is Director of the University of Florida’s Alexander Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education. His previous service includes professor at the University of Texas-Austin, and the National Security Council staff at the White House.

Winston Marshall is a Grammy award-winning musician, writer, and host of the Winston Marshall Show. He is co-founder of the non-profit organisation Hong Kong Link Up.

Zia Yusuf is the Chairman of Reform UK. He is Founder & CEO of Velocity Black, one of the UK's fastest growing companies, before selling it to Capital One in 2023. Since he became Chairman, Reform has risen to lead national opinion polls with historic membership growth.