Ehud Barak
Soldier; Prime Minister of Israel
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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
Maria Ressa
Journalist and Nobel Peace Laureate
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
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