Jonathan Charles has spent the past few years going in and out of some of the most dangerous places on earth. Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya are just a few of the wars and conflicts that he covered during his two decades as a BBC television and radio foreign correspondent. Jonathan now reads the news, as a freelance presenter, on BBC1, BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.

Benjamin Cohen is well known both as an entrepreneur and as a television journalist.

He has been both the youngest ever director of a public company and the youngest correspondent on a network news programme. He regularly speaks on his experiences in the dot.com boom, privacy, e-commerce, new media and diversity.

Geoff Cutmore presents CNBC Europe's award winning Squawkbox programme. He has spent the last decade covering business stories from CNBC's operations in London and Hong Kong.

Sarah is a well established journalist and presenter with extensive experience of live television and radio. She currently presents BBC Wales’ flagship news programme Good Morning Wales covering all aspects of international and national news and interviewing guests from Prime Ministers to snake charmers. Sarah also presented the weekly business programme Wales@Work for five years and won three Work World Media awards from the Work Foundation.

Maya Even presented  The Money Programme, the BBC's financial and business flagship programme for two years.  Prior to this she worked for Channel Four and ITN as the presenter of House to House, the daily parliament and politics programme.

Liam Halligan is Chief Economist at Prosperity Capital Management - one of the world's leading asset-management firms, with investments worth more than $5bn across Russia and the Former Soviet Union.

Along with his role at PCM, Liam is also one of the UK's leading economics commentators. For the last six years he has written the highly-influential Economics Agenda column for the Sunday Telegraph - which was recently recognised with a coveted British Press Award.

Tim Harford is an economist, award-winning journalist and speaker, TV and radio personality, and bestselling author. His books, The Undercover Economist (2005) and The Logic of Life (2008) have been translated into 30 languages and have sold nearly one million copies worldwide.

Alice Hibbert is an international news and current affairs presenter and correspondent. She is the lead female anchor on Russia Today, the Moscow-based 24 hour news channel. Alice previously worked at ITN’s London Tonight before moving to Russia in 2005 to front and produce RT’s business programme. 

Emma Howard is a former BBC News presenter and reporter on both television and radio. As a news correspondent she worked for the One, Six and Ten O'clock News as well as Radio 4 and 5Live - and as a presenter she fronted Breakfast on BBC 1 and later presented on News 24 and Drive Time on 5Live.

Allan is well known as a presenter of award-winning television news, having been a main Sky News presenter for more than 14 years. However, a large part of his career – which spans more than 35 years - has been spent in business and management.

Kirsty is the presenter of World News Today, an international current affairs programme broadcast globally on BBC World. She is a regular presenter for Front Row on Radio Four and has also been a stand in anchor for The World News Tonight and various other programmes.

Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert, presents Martin Lewis’ It Pays To Watch on Five, and ITV1’s Tonight money shows. He’s also GMTV’s in-house expert, as well as occupying regular slots on Radio 1 & 2. In print he’s a columnist for the News of The World and author of three bestsellers. Yet he’s best known for his website MoneySavingExpert.com, now a national institution with over four million monthly users.

Denis MacShane MP has intimate knowledge of the inner workings of government as a Minister of State for Europe at the Foreign Office and deputy Foreign Secretary.

James Max is an accomplished Radio and TV presenter with an expertise in business and finance with a flair for debates on current affairs. He presents Saturday Breakfast and the Sunday Afternoon Show on London's Biggest Conversation, the talk radio station, LBC 97.3

Bridgid is one of the most recognisable faces of Channel 4 News.  As well as regularly co-presenting, she is currently the Money Reporter, covering all areas of personal finance, consumer news, business and economics for Channel 4 News at Noon.

Nicholas Owen is a Presenter with BBC News, which he re-joined in February 2007. For well over a decade before that he hosted all ITN's major bulletins, including Channel Four News and News at Ten. He has also appeared in a wide range of other TV and radio programmes.

Libby has reported for the BBC and others for over a decade. She has presented The Money Programme on BBC One and Two for the past 3 years, travelling extensively within the UK and abroad, covering a huge variety of business stories and reporting on market trends.

Justin Preston formed his own company called Rare! in 2000 to cater for the very top end of London restaurants and hotels. Rare! has been a success through providing the very best quality and service.

Jamie Robertson is a highly experienced presenter of business programmes for the BBC, specialising in international finance, business and economics. As a lead presenter on the BBC World’s prestigious World Business Report he has covered subjects ranging from the "dot.com boom" to the collapse of Enron and the rise of the Chinese and Indian economies, interviewing the movers and shakers in global finance.

Nina de Roy is a business presenter at Sky News. Prior to joining Sky, she spent five years as a reporter and anchor at the Emmy award-winning station Bloomberg Television.

Guy Ruddle is The Daily Telegraph's Podcast Editor - believed to be the first to fill such a role at a major newspaper anywhere in the world.

Julian Rush is the Science & Environment Correspondent of Channel 4 News and he has recently taken on the Defence brief as well. His flair and enthusiasm for accessible explanation, investigation and analysis of the wide range of complex subjects he covers has been recognised with several major TV industry awards.

Adam Shaw is an award winning financial reporter and presenter. He is currently the business Presenter on Radio 4's Today Programme. He won the Plain English Campaign award for Broadcaster of the year for his work in debunking the language used by business and finance. For two years running he was Proshare personality of the year for his work in reporting on the world of shares and investments.

Alison is a multi-award-winning personal finance journalist and editor of the website www.mymoneydiva.com. She was the deputy personal finance editor of the Daily Telegraph, where she worked for more than six years as a personal finance specialist, and broke numerous exclusives. She has an easy manner and enthusiastic style, which helps her explain money in an accessible and straightforward way.

Allyson Stewart-Allen is an internationally renowned business expert in the fields of international marketing and working across cultures. A Californian based in the UK for over 20 years, she runs a thriving business from her offices in Los Angeles and London, where she lives and gets to apply her fluency in French and German.

Mark Webster is a former television broadcaster and spin doctor with wide experience in economics, business, foreign affairs and politics.