Portraits of an establishment

Ehud Barak

Soldier; Prime Minister of Israel

 

Richard Moore

Chief, Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Leader of the Belarusian people

Dame Kate Bingham

Chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce

Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller

Director-General of the Security Service (MI5); Co-President of Chatham House, Chair of the Wellcome Trust

James Earl Carter

President of the United States

Edi Rama

Prime Minister of Albania

Professor Dame Sue Black

Forensic Anthropologist and President of St John’s College, Oxford

Joe Biden

President of the United States

 

Lady Barbara Judge

Chair of the UK Atomic Energy Authority

William J. Burns

Director of the CIA

Sir Jeremy Fleming

Director of GCHQ

Arata Isozaki

1931-2022

Architect; Winner of the 2019 Pritzker Prize

William, Prince of Wales

Jacinda Ardern

Prime Minister of Aotearoa New Zealand

Julia Gillard

Prime Minister of Australia

Susana Clayton

Creative Director of Givenchy and Joseph

Lyndall Gordon

Biographer

Kofi Annan

Secretary-General of the United Nations

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Visiting Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford University

Professor Ian Griffiths

Mathematician

Amélie Nothomb

Novelist

Lord Foster

Architect

Admiral James G. Stavridis

Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)

Hamid Karzai

President of Afghanistan

The Duke of Sussex

 

Liz Truss

Prime Minister

Katrín Jakobsdottír

Prime Minister of Iceland

Sir Alex Younger

Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Txai Suriu

Activist fighting Amazonian deforestation; founder of Movement of Indigenous Youth of Rondônia

Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam

Senator in the French Parliament

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Peter Brook CH

Theatre and film director

1925-2022

Henry ‘Hank’ Paulson

Secretary of the US Treasury and CEO of Goldman Sachs

Princess Reema bint Bandar Al-Saud

Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the USA; entrepreneur and philanthropist

Professor Sir Peter Horby

Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Global Health at Oxford University

Sir John Scarlett

Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Sir David Omand

Director of GCHQ

Melina Abdullah

Co-founder of Black Lives Matter

Efraim Halevy

Director of Mossad

Raoul Coutard

Cinematographer

Sarnath Banerjee

Graphic Novelist

Robert Swan Mueller III

Director of the FBI and US Justice Department Special Prosecutor

Jude Law

Actor

Nik Powell

Director of the National Film and Television School

Sir Charles Saumarez Smith

Director of the Royal Academy

General David Petraeus

Director of CIA

Jonathan Freedland

Journalist

 

Sir Chris Bryant

Politician

Victoria Abril

Actress

William Jackson

Philanthropist and Chairman of Bridgepoint

Robert Hannigan

Director of GCHQ and Warden of Wadham College, Oxford

Aung San Suu Kyi

President of Burma

Eric Parry

Architect

Helen Mountfield

Barrister and Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford

George Caird

Musician

Brian Cox

Physicist

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Novelist, screenwriter and film-maker

Paul Kagame

President of Rwanda

Gordon Brown

Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer

Romain Duris

Actor

Ritula Shah

Broadcast journalist

Lord Renfrew

Archaeologist

Neil Gaiman

Writer

Mikhail Gorbachev

1931-2022

 General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Hanif Kureishi

Writer

Sir Richard Dearlove

Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

Harry Billinge

Royal Engineers

Alexander McCall Smith

Writer and Professor of Medical Law

Artur Ekert

Professor of Quantum Physics

© The Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford

Mindy Chen-Wishart

Dean of the Faculty of Law at Oxford University

© The Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford

Sir Michael Palin

Python

Boris Johnson

Prime Minister

Tawakkol Karman

Journalist and Nobel Peace Laureate

Uhuru Kenyatta

President of Kenya

Patrice Chéreau

Theatre and Film Director

Noam Chomsky

Philosopher

John Mahama

President of Ghana

David Lammy

Shadow Foreign Secretary

Julie Delpy

Actress and Film Director

Bonnie Greer

Playwright

Grant Shapps

Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero

Mike Hodges

Film Director

1932-2022

Kate O’Regan

Director of The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights

Vincent Perez

Actor and Photographer

Helen Lacey

Historian

Baroness Sue Black

Forensic Anthropologist and President of St John’s College, Oxford

Doris Lessing

Writer and Nobel Laureate

Jeremy Hunt

Chancellor, Health Secretary, Foreign Secretary

Sir Kim Darroch

Diplomat

Alastair McBain

Philanthropist and businessman

Abbas Kiarostami

Film-maker

Ursula Burns

CEO of Xerox

Damon Hill

Formula 1 World Champion

Guillermo Solis

President of Costa Rica

David Cameron

Prime Minister

Tony Blair

Prime Minister

Professor Sir Colin Blakemore

1944-2022

Nathan Mulcock

Chaplain at Mansfield College, Oxford

Emma Sky

Director of the International Leadership Centre at Yale University

James Binney

Astrophysicist

© The Warden and Fellows of Merton College

Imran Khan

Cricketer and Prime Minister of Pakistan

Brian Eno

Musician

Mark Esper

US Secretary of Defence

Dame Mary Beard

Classicist

Sir Keir Starmer QC

Director of Public Prosecutions and Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition

Nancy Pelosi

Speaker of the House of Representatives

Yanar Mohammed

Director of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq

Tony Lemon

Geographer

 

 Hakainde Hichilema

 President of Zambia

Sabine Azéma

Actress

Margaret Atwood

Writer

Philip Hensher

Novelist

Michael Bloomberg

Mayor of New York City and CEO of Bloomberg L.P.

Michel Roux

Master chef

1941-2020

Mario Vargas Llosa

Writer and Diplomat

Michel Barnier

Politician

Sir John Major

Prime Minister

Prince Turki bin Faisal Abdulaziz Al Saud

Head of Saudi Intelligence; Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the United States

John Randolph Lucas

Philosopher

Alassane Ouattara

President of Côte d’Ivoire

Dame Gillian Beer

Literary critic and President of Clare Hall, Cambridge

Amartya Sen

Economist, Nobel Laureate and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge

Barham Salih

President of Iraq

Chris Foster

Head of European Gas Trading at Citadel

Raila Odinga

Prime Minister of Kenya

Ban Ki-moon

Secretary-General of the United Nations

Shimon Peres

President and Prime Minister of Israel

Hermann Achille, Count van Rompuy

Prime Minister of Belgium and President of the European Council

Martti Ahtisaari

President of Finland and Nobel Peace laureate

Nambaryn Enkhbayar

Prime Minister and President of Mongolia

Hashim Thaçi

President of Kosovo

Ana Brnabić

Prime Minister of Serbia

Ehud Olmert

Prime Minister of Israel

Rowan Williams

Archbishop of Canterbury and Master of Magdalene College Cambridge

Ashraf Ghani

President of Afghanistan

Carles Puigdemont

President of Catalonia

Erna Solberg

Prime Minister of Norway

Olusegun Obasanjo

President of Nigeria and Chair of the African Union

Joyce Banda

President of Malawi

Sharif Sheikh Ahmed

President of Somalia

Enrique Peña Nieto

President of Mexico

Mohammed Khatami

President of Iran

Antonio Bonchristiano

Businessman and Philanthropist

Morgan Tsvangarai

Prime Minister of Zimbabwe

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Prime Minister and President of Turkey

Arseniy Yatsenyuk

Prime Minister of Ukraine

Filipe Nyusi

President of Mozambique

Jon Stallworthy

Poet and academic