Margaret MacMillan
Historian
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Charles Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Sir Richard Sykes
Microbiologist and Rector of Imperial College
Chris Wilkinson
Architect
Sir Ben Okri
Writer
Magne Magler Wiggen
Architect
Lyndall Gordon
Biographer
Colin, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn
Archaeologist
1937-2024
Sara Pantuliano
CEO of the Overseas Development Institute
John Bolton
US Ambassador to the UN, National Security Adviser
General Sir Mike Jackson 1944-2024
Chief of the General Staff
Lord Foster
Architect
Pascal Lamy
Director-General of the WTO
Michel Barnier
Prime Minister of France
Admiral James G. Stavridis
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)
Hamid Karzai
President of Afghanistan
Txai Suriu
Activist fighting Amazonian deforestation; founder of Movement of Indigenous Youth of Rondônia
Sir John Major
Prime Minister
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
Sir John Scarlett
Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
Sir David Omand
Director of GCHQ
Melina Abdullah
Co-founder of Black Lives Matter
Aleksei German
Film-Maker
Efraim Halevy
Director of Mossad
Raoul Coutard
Cinematographer
Michael Ignatieff
Writer
Lucy Winkett
Vicar of St. James’s, Piccadilly
Tracy Chevalier
Writer
Professor David Starkey
Historian
Francis Fukuyama
Political scientist
Olivier Assayas
Film Director
Piers Gough
Architect
Kgalema Motlanthe
President of South Africa
Dr Bryson Gore
Scientist
Nik Powell
Director of the National Film and Television School
Bernard Emié
Diplomat and Director of the DGSE
Ehud Barak
Soldier; Prime Minister of Israel
Maria Ressa
Journalist and Nobel Peace Laureate
Rawan Yaghi
Journalist
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
Eric Parry
Architect
George Caird
Musician
Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun
Director-General of the World Health Organisation
Tim Frion
Performer and puppeteer with Compagnie Alexandre Fox
Paul Kagame
President of Rwanda
Romain Duris
Actor
Mary Robinson
President of Ireland and UN Commissioner for Human Rights
Ritula Shah
Broadcast journalist
Dgena Mouclier
Couture and Upcycling Fashion Designer
Mikhail Gorbachev
1931-2022
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Hanif Kureishi
Writer
Jean-Claude Carrière
Screenwriter and playwright
Naomi Wood
Writer
Sir Richard Dearlove
Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
Grant Shapps
Secretary of State for Defence
William Klein
Photographer
Harry Billinge
Royal Engineers
‘T‘
Mindy Chen-Wishart
Dean of the Faculty of Law at Oxford University
© The Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford
Tawakkol Karman
Journalist and Nobel Peace Laureate
Uhuru Kenyatta
President of Kenya
John Mahama
President of Ghana
Julie Delpy
Actress and Film Director
Sir Jeremy Fleming
Director of GCHQ
Edi Rama
Prime Minister of Albania
Mike Hodges
Film Director
1932-2022
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
Abbas Kiarostami
Film-maker
Ursula Burns
CEO of Xerox
Damon Hill
Formula 1 World Champion
Guillermo Solis
President of Costa Rica
Sir John Sawers
Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
Professor Sir Colin Blakemore
1944-2022
Sir Michael Rake
Chairman of BT, President of the CBI
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
Stacey Abrams
Political activist
Mark Esper
US Secretary of Defence
Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Tony Lemon
Geographer
Hakainde Hichilema
President of Zambia
Margaret Atwood
Writer
Alastair McBain
Philanthropist and businessman
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
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
Raila Odinga
Prime Minister of Kenya
Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations
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
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
Ann Kenrick
Master of The Charterhouse
Chuka Umunna
Politician
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
President of Somalia
Michelle Bachelet
President of Chile; UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Leyla Hussein
Anti-FGM campaigner and activist; Founder of Daughters of Eve
Helen Clark
Prime Minister of New Zealand
Anne Cartier
Painter
Lauren Child
Writer
Yukiya Amano
Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
1947-2019
Jacques Rancière
Philosopher
Sir Keith Thomas
Historian
General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith
Chief of the General Staff
Saad El-Din Rafik Al-Hariri
Prime Minister of Lebanon
Dame Ruth Hunt
Chief Executive of Stonewall
Dr. Joseph Pilat
Los Alamos National Laboratory
General Ray Odierno
Chief of Staff of the US Army
Jean-Paul Rappenau
Film Director
Adel al-Jubeir
Saudi Foreign Minister and Ambassador to UK
Evan Davis
Economist and broadcaster
Robert Crumb
Cartoonist and Creator of Fritz the Cat
David Lammy
Foreign Secretary
Sir Paul Ruddock
Businessman and Philanthropist
Cory Doctorow
Writer
Margaret MacMillan
Historian
Portraits of an establishment 