Aki Onda – Japanese-born artist, composer and curator
Mara Menzies – Kenyan storyteller and performer
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi – Ugandan novelist and short story writer
Maimouna Jallow – Kenyan writer, journalist and producer
Louise Minchin – British journalist and news presenter
Sir Philip Pullman – English novelist and author of His Dark Materials
Irving Finkel – British philologist and Assyriologist, curator at the British Museum
Michael Redhill – Canadian poet, playwright and novelist
Bruce Pascoe – Australian Indigenous writer
Ben Okri – Nigerian poet and novelist, winner of the Booker Prize
Malachi O’Doherty – Northern Irish journalist, author and broadcaster
Marco Manetti
Nicolas Winding Refn
Claude Lelouch
Pupi Avati
Romano Prodi