spent the past decade as Co-CEO of Gensler, the world's largest design firm. As CEO, he was responsible for the firm’s operational infrastructure. During his 23 years at Gensler, David helped grow the company from $60M revenue to $1.1B revenue. He is currently Board Director of NextSpace, Inc. and on the Board of RocketSpace, Inc.

is a London-based journalist, curator, lecturer, writer, and broadcaster who has worked in comics publishing and promotion since 1981. He founded and co-edited Escape Magazine, a British comic strip magazine.

is the author of several graphic novels, including the Kabul Disco series recounting his experiences as an expat in Afghanistan and the award-winning A La Maison des Femmes.

is a distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Oxford and successor to Richard Dawkins as Professor for the Public Understanding of Science in the UK. He has been knighted Order of the British empire for services to science.

is Professor of English at Ashoka University. He is the author of six books on early modern literature and culture, including the bestselling The First Firangis.

Leakey is the most celebrated palaeontologist and anthropologist working on human origins today. Scion of the extraordinary Leakey family, she continues to lead the world’s most influential dig sites in Eastern Africa.

has lived in and written about India, China, Indonesia, Japan, Belgium and Spain. She is a journalist and the author of several books, most recently a memoir of her years in Japan titled Orienting: An Indian in Japan.

is a biologist with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience. He has been tinkering with yeast genomes, dry deciduous forests, rat sensory neurons, human brains, and baby minds, across three continents. He is now teaching practical applications of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam.