
MEET OUR SPEAKERS

DAVID GANDY
A British supermodel, businessman and founder of eponymous fashion and lifestyle brand David Gandy Wellwear.

DAN SNOW MBE
Dan Snow MBE is a widely acclaimed historian and television presenter of award-winning documentaries across the BBC, Channel 5, and the History Channel. He also brings stories that shaped the world to life on his online History Hit broadcast channel and podcasts.

Lady Edwina Grosvenor
Lady Edwina Grosvenor, a criminologist and prison philanthropist who founded the charity One Small Thing to redesign the justice system for women and their children.

CATHY ADAMS
Cathy Adams is senior content editor for Times Travel and was previously travel editor at The Independent and Evening Standard. Before that, she lived in Hong Kong for four years, editing an inflight magazine.

LAURA JACKSON
Laura Jackson is commissioning editor for Times Travel. A travel writer and editor with nearly two decades of experience, Laura specialises in city breaks, solo travel and cruise.

Anoushé Husain
SoulKind ambassador, Anoushé Husain, was born missing her right arm below the elbow, living with multiple health conditions, a cancer survivor, a Muslim and coming from an ethnic minority, Anoushé has never let what society or culture thinks she should do limit her or dictate the direction of her life.

Joshua Coombes
BecomingX ambassador, Joshua Coombes, is the author of Do Something for Nothing. His social movement #dosomethingfornothing, has reached over 100 million people around the world, inspiring people to support their local communities.

Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton
BecomingX ambassador, Dr. Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, is a British firefighter, psychologist and writer. Her powerful story details how she went from living on the streets at 15 to Chief Fire Officer and one of the most senior female firefighters in the UK.

James Brett
BecomingX ambassador, James Brett, became the founder of Plant for Peace after a life impacted by sexual abuse, drug addition, prison, homelessness, betrayal and mental illness.

Nigel Vardy
BecomingX ambassador Nigel Vardy, also known as ‘Mr Frostbite’, became a record-breaking British mountaineer after getting caught in freezing temperatures on Mount McKinley in Alaska. He lost all of his fingers and toes, both of his heels, his nose and part of his cheek.

Kristian Brodie
Kristian Brodie is a film producer, writer and the founder and co-host of OneTrackMinds. He produced the BIFA-winning feature documentary NEXT GOAL WINS and the BAFTA-winning thriller BEAST. He works as the Head of Development at the Curzon CM Development Fund.

Adam Shakinovsky
Adam Shakinovsky is an award-winning writer-producer, director of VERYFINE and Bru Productions and co-host of OneTrackMinds. His work across different platforms explores how people can find, develop and own their authentic stories.

Lucy Shepherd
SoulKind ambassador, Lucy Shepherd, is at the forefront of modern exploration. From mountain range and tropical rainforests, to the Arctic tundra, she has plotted a thrilling, inimitable path for herself.

Gillian Burke
Rewriting Extinction ambassador, Gillian Burke, is a biologist, presenter, public speaker, voiceover artist, writer and mother. Whether it’s the natural or human world, Gillian has a passion for science and storytelling.

David Schneider
Rewriting Extinction ambassador, David Schneider, is an actor, writer and director best known for his work in The Day Today and I’m Alan Partridge, as well as for co-writing The Death Of Stalin.

Ari Peralta
Ari Peralta, is one of the world’s leading voices in neuroscience and the senses. He is a partner of mycoocoon, the leading colour therapy software company, creating new-age Colour experiences and technologies to support people’s mental health.

Emma Barnett
Emma presents Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4, Monday to Thursday at 10-11am. It is the longest-running women’s show in the world. During Emma’s time it has become the most downloaded programme across the BBC.

Fats Timbo
Fats Timbo is a creator, comedian and educator who has risen to prominence with her snappy sketches, quick wit and advocacy. She pulls no punches in her comedy, confidently and shamelessly finding fun in stories of her own life, and the world around her.

Jordan Jarrett-Bryan
Jordan Jarrett-Bryan is an award winning Journalist and Broadcaster. He’s the Sports Correspondent for Channel 4 News and has a weekly show on talkSPORT. In 2018, Jordan started up a YouTube channel Blakademik, aimed to elevate and celebrate Black culture.

Jennie Becker
Jennie Becker is the founder and host of Sliding Doors. Based on her love of the 90’s movie classic and the theory of the Sliding Doors concept, she independently launched the podcast in 2021.

Kevin and Liz Fletcher
Kelvin Fletcher is an actor best known for playing Andy Sugden in Emmerdale. Liz Fletcher is an actor and voiceover artist. They star together, along with their children, Marnie and Milo, on BBC1’s Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure.

Dr Brendon Stubbs
Dr Brendon Stubbs is one of the world’s most influential mental health researchers. His work focuses on physical activity and mental health and the relationship between a sound mind and sound body. Since 2019,

Rhiane Fatinikun
Rhiane Fatinikun is an outdoors advocate and founder of Black Girls Hike. Rhiane has a passion for human empowerment and challenging the status quo.

Professor Alastair Driver
Prof Alastair Driver is one of the UK’s best known conservationists and the Director of Rewilding Britain. He plays a key role in influencing government environmental policy at the highest level and establishing rewilding projects in England and Wales.

Sophie Morgan
SoulKind ambassador, Sophie Morgan, is an award-winning TV presenter who is changing the face of daytime television as one of the world’s first presenters with a disability.

David Haze
SoulKind ambassador, David Haze, is a former prisoner who turned his life around to become a seven time SUP world-record holder. He uses adventure as a tool for growth.

Roz Purcell
Roz Purcell is a three times best-selling cookery author, entrepreneur, and Founder of The Hike Life.

Paul Goodenough
Paul Goodenough is a multi-award-winning, double Emmy nominated writer and producer, and the Founder of Rewriting Extinction.

Amelie Trolle
Amelie Trolle is the Head of Engagement at Planet Mark. Amelie is experienced in sustainability management and devising learning journeys about sustainability. She strongly believes in sustainability as a driver for innovation and the business community’s power to be a force for good.

Hattie Web
Hattie Web is the Engagement Manager at Planet Mark. Hattie excels at energising businesses into action and educating employees on what can be a complex and confusing industry.

Daisy Buchanan
An award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster who has written for every major newspaper and magazine in the UK. A TEDx speaker and host of the chart-topping podcast You’re Booked.

Giles Coren and Esther Walker
Giles Coren is an award-winning journalist, television presenter and author. He is the restaurant critic and columnist for The Times. Esther Walker is a journalist and author. Together, they host the popular podcast, Giles Coren Has No Idea.

Sarah Jossel
Sarah Jossel is beauty director at The Sunday Times’ Style magazine. She also writes the #BeautyBoss column.

LUCY SIEGLE
Lucy Siegle is a journalist, broadcaster and opinion leader who specialises in climate and nature stories. As a reporter and presenter on BBC1’s The One Show, she has been following the problem of single use plastic and wider ecological issues since the show began in 2007.

Grace Meadows
Grace Meadows is the Campaign Director for Music for Dementia, a national campaign calling for music to be an integral part of care for everyone living with dementia. For the last decade she has worked as a qualified music therapist in a variety of health, social care and educational settings with children and adults across the lifespan, including a large London NHS Trust.

John Pienaar
John Pienaar is the host of Drive Time on Times Radio. He is the former Deputy Politial Editor at the BBC.

Alice Thomson
Alice Thomson is a columnist and interviewer at The Times. A former Times trainee, she became a foreign correspondent, feature writer and political reporter for the paper before moving to The Telegraph as a columnist, restaurant reviewer and leader writer. She returned to The Times in 2008.

Hugo Rifkind
Hugo Rifkind is a columnist and leader writer for The Times and a presenter on Times Radio. He also writes regular columns for The Spectator and GQ and is a frequent panellist on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz.

Helen Rumbelow
Helen Rumbelow is a feature writer for Times2 and a columnist. She was the health correspondent before moving to Westminster as political correspondent. She spent time as a commissioning editor on the Comment desk, and has also worked at The Washington Post as a Laurence Stern Fellow.
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