Presenter and journalist Tazeen Ahmad makes films for Dispatches for Channel 4 including titles Woman Only Jihad, Undercover Mother and Christmas Credit Crisis.

Zeinab Badawi is currently presenting her own evening daily programme World News Today at 1900 on BBC 4 TV, which is the only programme simultaneously broadcast on the BBC World Channel.

Jeremy joined the BBC in 1984 and has been a foreign correspondent since 1987. He has covered most of the big world stories in the last 22 years, reporting from over seventy countries. Jeremy has presented BBC Breakfast and has also fronted a number of landmark documentaries for the BBC. He is currently the BBC's Middle East Editor.

Michael Buerk has probably won more international awards for television reporting than any other British journalist most notably for his coverage of the Ethiopian famine for BBC News in 1984/5. His reports filmed with the Nairobi-based cameraman, Mohamed Amin alerted the world to the extent of the tragedy. They were shown worldwide, to an audience of billions. They led directly to a massive international relief effort itself valued in billions of dollars, which was estimated to have saved well over a million lives.

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.

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Sandy Gall's career with ITN spanned nearly 30 years, from 1963 to 1992. He was part of the original team of News at Ten- the first half-hour television news in Britain launched in 1967 and now ITN's flagship programme- and became one of its senior newscasters.

Lindsey Hilsum is the International Editor of Channel 4 News. She is amongst Britain's leading foreign correspondents, having reported from every continent over 20 years.

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.

Robert is ITN's European Correspondent for ITV News and was previously their Washington Correspondent. He assumed the role at the start of 2002 after five years as ITN's Diplomatic & Foreign Affairs Editor. From 1991 to 1996 he was ITN's Middle East Correspondent and he won the "International News Prize" at the 1996 Royal Television Society Journalism Awards for his reporting that year of the fighting on the West Bank between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers.

Tim Sebastian, the award-winning former BBC foreign correspondent, presented HARDtalk, BBC World's daily half-hour interview programme.

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.

Alex Thomson is a familiar figure in British TV news as both an award-winning correspondent and anchor on ITN's Channel 4 News. He combines reporting on major national and international stories and war coverage with his studio presenting role on Channel 4's in-depth 7pm nightly news.

Justin is the BBC North America Editor. In October 2009 he joined the presenting team on the Today Programme on Radio Four.