Portraits of an establishment

Salil Shetty

Director-General of Amnesty International

Tracy Chevalier

Writer

Alexander Butterfield

Head of the Federal Aviation Authority and Personal Aide to President Nixon

John Burnside

Writer

Lord Stirrup

Chief of the Defence Staff

Claire Denis

Film Director

Peter Snow

Writer and Broadcaster

Phil Hatfield

Director of the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library

Matthew Winthrop Barzun

US Ambassador to The Court of St. James’s

Roly Keating

Director of the British Library

Ela Bhatt

Founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association of India

Jeh Johnson

Director of Homeland Security

Bertrand Tavernier

Film director

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim

President of Mauritius

Adama Barrow

President of the Gambia

Francis Fukuyama

Political scientist

Olivier Assayas

Film Director

Michel Linet-Frion

Architect and Creative Director of Center Parcs

Piers Gough

Architect

Carl Bildt

Prime Minister of Sweden

Martin Roth

Director of the V & A

Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

Francesca Shakespeare

Artist

Gordon Benson

Architect

Dominique Le Fur

Lexicographer

Raymond Blanc

Chef

Marco Rubio

Senator for Florida

Kgalema Motlanthe

President of South Africa

Baroness Lane-Fox

Entrepreneur and Chancellor of the Open University

Tadao Ando

Boxer, truck driver, architect

David Miliband

Foreign Secretary; President of The International Rescue Committee

Peter Piot

Microbiologist and Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Baroness Neville-Jones

Chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee

Viktor Orbán

Prime Minister of Hungary

Nicolas Roeg

Film Director

Baroness Williams of Crosby

Politician

James Naughtie

Broadcast journalist and writer

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel

Peter Kellner

Journalist and founder of YouGov

Rawan Yaghi

Writer

Tessa McWatt

Writer

Margaret MacMillan

Historian and Warden of St. Antony’s College, Oxford

Sir Simon Fraser

Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office and Deputy Chairman of Chatham House

Ahmed Aboul Gheit

Secretary-General of the League of Arab States

Irina Bokova

Director-General of UNESCO

Boris Johnson

Politician

Ken Brecher

President of The Library Foundation of Los Angeles

Romain Duris

Film Actor

Wolf Lepenies

Academic

Andrew Scobie

CEO of The Faraday Grid

Ezra Furman

Musician

General Philip Breedlove

Supreme Allied Commander Europe

Lakhdar Brahimi

UN and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria; Member of The Elders

Oxford academics

Jung Chang

Writer

Theodore Zeldin

Writer

François Bizot

Anthropologist

Lord Adonis

Academic and politician

Naomi Wood

Writer

James Cowan

CEO of the HALO Trust

Mark Thompson

Director-General of the BBC; CEO of the New York Times

Chris Saul

Senior partner at Slaughter and May

Dr. Karin von Hippel

Director-General of The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

Paula Coelho

Environment Minister for Angola

Tonino Benaquista

Writer

Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein, King of Jordan

Ásta Helgadóttir

Pirate Party Member of the Icelandic Parliament

Herman Achille, Count van Rompuy

Prime Minister of Belgium and President of the European Council

Baron Evans of Temple Guiting

Publisher and politician

Andrea Wulf

Writer

Nicolas Roeg

Film Director 1928-2018

General Sir Nick Carter

Chief of the Defence Staff

Emily Thornberry

Politician

Jens Weidmann

President of the Deutsche Bundesbank

Alison MacLeod

Writer

Deyan Sudjic

Director of the Design Museum

Lujain al Ubaid

CEO of Tasamy

Sir Simon McDonald

Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Estelle Levin-Nally

CEO and Founder, Levin Sources

Christine Bold

Academic

Fred Taylor

Halley Professor of Physics at Oxford

Patricia Clavin

Historian

Hilary Lister

Sailor

Helen Mountfield QC

Lawyer and Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford

Kate Clanchy

Poet and Writer in Residence at Mansfield College, Oxford

 

Kurt Campbell

 

Diplomat and CEO of The Asia Group

Kirsten Hund

Senior Mining Specialist, The World Bank

Alan Greenspan

Chair of the US Federal Reserve

Alice Black

Director of the Design Museum, London

Baroness Scotland of Asthal

Secretary-General of the Commonwealth

Sir Keir Starmer

Director of Public Prosecutions

Fiona Harvey

Environment Correspondent for the Guardian

Valerie Jarrett

Senior adviser to President Obama

John Randolph Lucas

Philosopher

1929-2020

Sir Ivan Rogers

Civil Servant

Politician

Secretary of State

 

 

Polly Toynbee

Journalist

Susana Clayton

Creative Director of Joseph

Paul Volcker

Chairman of the US Federal Reserve

1927-2019

Fujia Chen

Aeronautical Engineer

Jeffrey Sachs

Economist and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University

Philippe Etienne 

Ambassador and Senior Adviser to President Macron

Norma Percy

Film-maker

Chris Saul

Senior Partner, Slaughter and May

 Jason Rezaian

Journalist

Mark Brownlow

Producer, Blue Planet 2

Martin Fayulu

Businessman and politician

Di and Della

Julian Hector

Head of the BBC Natural History Unit

Chris Coons

Senator for Delaware

Hannah Kohler

Writer

Philip D. Zelikow

Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission and author of

The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis

Stuart E. Eizenstat

Senior Adviser to President Carter; US Ambassador to the EU

Sir Keir Starmer QC

 

Suella Braverman QC

Attorney-General

 

Nasir Hamid

Photographer

Sally Johnson

Director, Fairfields Consulting

Theresa May

Prime Minister

Justine Greening

Politician

Andrew Forrest

Businessman and philanthropist

Timothy Garton Ash

Professor of European Studies at Oxford University

Daze Aghaji

Climate activist with Extinction Rebellion

 

Sir David Cannadine

Historian

A.N. Wilson

Writer

Rupert Younger

Director of the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation

Antoine de Caunes

Film director, actor, TV presenter

Axel Rudolph

Technical Analyst

Strive Masiyiwa

Philanthropist and Chair of AGRA

John Kluge

Founder, Refugee Investment Network

Jack Straw

Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Lord Chancellor

Lorna Solis

Founder, Blue Rose Compass

Sir Howard Davies

Chair of RBS, Chair of the FSA, Director of the LSE, Director-General of the CBI, Postmaster at Merton College, Oxford

François de Borchgrave

Businessman

Lord Williams of Oystermouth

Archbishop of Canterbury and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge

Fiona Hill

Political adviser

Dame Inga Beale

CEO of Lloyd’s of London

Anne-Marie Imafidon

CEO of Stemettes

Sarah Macintosh

UK Ambassador to NATO; Director-General, Defence and Intelligence (FCO)

Thandie Newton

Actress

Nana Akufo-Addo

President of Ghana

Dame Esther Rantzen

Founder of ChildLine