Meet our Speakers at the FT Weekend Festival

MEET OUR SPEAKERS FROM 2024

William Burns

CIA director

Richard Moore

MI6 chief

Wes Streeting

Secretary of state for health and social care

Mishal Husain

BBC presenter and journalist

Ian McKellen

Actor

Michael Palin

Writer and presenter

Deborah Meaden

Entrepreneur, investor and author

John Lithgow

Actor

Lesley Sharp

Actress

Simon Russell Beale

Actor

Sharon White

Chairman of The John Lewis Partnership

Neil Mendoza

Provost of Oriel College, Oxford and member of the House of Lords

Simon Schama

Historian and FT contributing editor

Anne Applebaum

Author, journalist and historian

Robert Harris

Author

Bella Mackie

Author

Marcus Brigstocke

Comedian

Roula Khalaf

FT editor

Tim Spector

Professor of epidemiology, King's College London and co-founder of ZOE

Plum Sykes

Author

Péjú Oshin

Curator, writer, and lecturer

Jayden Ali

Architect, artist and filmmaker

Allie Esiri

Writer and poetry curator

Gabriel Gatehouse

Journalist, broadcaster and author

Jancis Robinson

FT wine correspondent

Aidan Gomez

Co-founder and CEO, Cohere

Dianne Whelan

Documentary filmmaker, photographer, author and artist

Leo Houlding

Mountaineer and rock climber

Rita Konig

Interior designer & design journalist

Tim Harford

FTWeekend columnist and presenter of BBC’s More or Less

Claer Barrett

FT consumer editor

Daniel Daggers

DDRE Global founder and CEO

Penelope Tree

Model and author

Patrick Jenkins

FT deputy editor

Anna Jones

Cook, writer and author

Robert Shrimsley

FT UK chief political commentator and executive editor

Jo Ellison

FT Weekend deputy editor and HTSI editor

Shane Connolly

Floral designer and florist by royal appointment to King Charles III

Edward Luce

FT US national editor and columnist

Madhumita Murgia

FT artificial intelligence editor

Martin Wolf

FT chief economics commentator

Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy

The Land Gardeners

Stephen Bush

FT columnist & associate editor

Pilita Clark

FT business columnist

Gideon Rachman

FT chief foreign affairs commentator

Jan Dalley

FT arts editor

John Burn-Murdoch

FT chief data reporter

Janine Gibson

FT Weekend editor

Mickey Down and Konrad Kay

TV creators and writers

Iva Gumnishka

Founder of Humans in the Loop

Bill Janeway

Venture capitalist and economist

Gillian Tett

Provost, King's College and FT columnist and editorial board

Simon Kuper

FT Life & Arts columnist

Nahid de Belgeonne

Somatic movement coach

Robin Lane Fox

FT Weekend gardening columnist

Asma Khan

Founder of Darjeeling Express

Tom Robbins

FT travel editor

Enuma Okoro

FT Life & Arts columnist

Murad Ahmed

FT technology news editor

Cordelia Jenkins

FT Weekend Magazine deputy editor

Sam Brooks

Founding director, Vintage Acquisitions

Sonia Livingstone

Professor at London School of Economics and Political Science

Nathan Brooker

FT Money editor

Audrey Tang

Author and chartered psychologist

Mark Ellwood

Editor and TV host

Sarah Chapman

Skincare and beauty mogul

Frederick Studemann

FT literary editor

Rebecca Rose

FT Globetrotter editor

John Thornhill

FT innovation editor

Alice Lascelles

FT drinks columnist

Josh Spero

FT associate arts editor

Flora Soames

Interior designer

Henry Mance

FT chief features writer

Reshma Sohoni

Managing partner, Seedcamp

Jim Pickard

FT deputy political editor

Nancy Cadogan

Artist

Stuart Kirk

FT investment columnist

Beatrice Hodgkin

FT House and Home editor

Harriet Fitch Little

FT Magazine food & drink editor

Alexandru Iftimie

Former Uber driver

Yuan Yang

MP and author

Andy Cato

Farmer and co-founder of Wildfarmed

Catherine Belton

Author of Putin's People

Joshua Oliver

FT property correspondent

Hannah Rock

FT Edit editor

William Dalrymple

Historian and author

Renate Nyborg

Founder of Meeno and ex-CEO of Tinder

Tobias Buck

FT managing editor

Rose Ferguson

Nutritionist and functional medicine practitioner

Ago Perrone

Director of mixology at The Connaught Hotel, London

Caroline Simmons

Chief investment officer, Quilter Cheviot

Louis Wise

HTSI deputy editor

Jemima Kelly

FT columnist

Alidad .

Designer

Lilah Raptopoulos

Host of FT Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast

Tim Hayward

Food writer and author

Horatia Harrod

FT Weekend senior editor

Clem Hobson

Managing director of The Modern House

Mark Rowlands

Professor of philosophy and author of The Happiness of Dogs

Soumaya Keynes

FT columnist and podcast host

Henry Pryor

Property buying agent

Katie Martin

FT markets columnist

Antonio Di Mauro

Scientist and lecturer, Chenot Group

Moira O'Neill

FT Money columnist

Lucinda Chambers

Fashion designer, stylist and co-founder of Collagerie

Richard Donnell

Executive director, Zoopla

Juliet Riddell

FT head of new formats

Sam Byers

Author

Isabel Berwick

Host and editor of Working It podcast and newsletter

Jonathan Coe

Author

Amanda Craig

Author

Huw Gott

Hawksmoor's co-founder and creative director

Jennifer Williams

FT north of England correspondent

Greg Jackson

Founder and CEO, Octopus Energy

Amy Orben

Psychologist at University of Cambridge

Nimesh Shah

Blick Rothenberg CEO

Katherine Waller

Six Degrees co-founder

Jane Owen

FT contributing editor

Chris Allnutt

HTSI sub-editor and FT games critic

Fiona Sturges

Journalist

David Cheal

FT Arts sub-editor

Jessica Wragg

Butcher and author

Ludo Hunter-Tilney

FT arts writer and pop critic

Meghna Jayanth

Video game writer

Craig Brown

Author of A Voyage Around the Queen

Anjli Raval

FT management editor

Giuliano Da Empoli

Author of Wizard of the Kremlin

Alistair Griffiths

RHS director of science & collections

Lindsay Judge

Resolution Foundation research director

Claude Béata

Veterinary doctor

Clare Archer

Penningtons Manches Cooper partner

Andrew Perratt

Savills head of UK residential

Naomi Alderman

Author

Simon Edelsten

Retired fund manager

Becky Fatemi

Prime property agent

Tom Massey

Landscape designer

Francesca Jakobi

FT lead visual journalist

Jason Okundaye

Writer and author

Emma Jacobs

FT work and careers writer

Daniel Chandler

Economist, philosopher and author

Lucy Watson

FT House & Home commissioning editor

Sebastian Raedler

Bank of America head of European equity strategy

Maria Balshaw

Tate director

Sebastian Payne

Onward director and author

Ravinder Bhogal

FT recipe writer and chef

Roger Blitz

FT crossword editor

Fetuma Hassan

Young mayor of Tower Hamlets

James Brydon

FT crossword setter (Buccaneer)

Sonja Hutson

FT News Briefing podcast producer

Alistair Spalding

Sadler's Wells artistic director and chief executive

Cleve West

Landscape designer

Andrew Oxlade

Director, Fidelity Personal Investing

Malvee Vaja

Chartered financial planner at Rathbones Group

James Baxter

Founder and executive chair at Tideway Wealth

Laura Battle

FT deputy books editor

Josh Gabert-Doyon

FT podcast producer and journalist

Poppy O'Toole

'Poppy Cooks'

Alan Livsey

FT asset management reporter

Julian Baggini

Author and philosopher

Edward de Mallet Morgan

prime property agent

Nicholas Cullinan

British Museum director

Arwa Haider

FT journalist

Nitin Radhakrishnan

Senior lecturer, Le Cordon Bleu London

Daniel Susskind

Author of Growth

David Kolner

Virtuoso EVP

Nicholas Lyons

Phoenix chair of the group board

Anand Tucker

Film director

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