Anne Longworth Garrels was an American broadcast journalist who worked as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio,as well as for ABC and NBC,and other media.
Martin Sixsmith is a British author and radio/television presenter,primarily working for the BBC. He has also worked as an adviser to the Labour government and to the BBC television comedy series The Thick of It. Sixsmith's book about Philomena Lee,The Lost Child of Philomena Lee,was the basis for the 2013 film Philomena,in which Sixsmith is played by Steve Coogan.
Orla Guerin MBE is an Irish journalist. She is a Senior International correspondent working for BBC News broadcasting around the world and across the UK.
The Harkness Fellowship is a program run by the Commonwealth Fund of New York City. This fellowship was established to reciprocate the Rhodes Scholarships and enable Fellows from several countries to spend time studying in the United States.
Jonathan Steele is a British journalist and the author of several books on international affairs.
Orlando Guy Figes is a British and German historian and writer. He was a professor of history at Birkbeck College,University of London,where he was made Emeritus Professor on his retirement in 2022.
Lyse Marie Doucet is a Canadian journalist who is the BBC's Chief International Correspondent and senior presenter. She presents on BBC World Service radio and BBC World News television,and also reports for BBC Radio 4 and BBC News in the United Kingdom. She also makes and presents documentaries.
Claire Shipman is an American television journalist,formerly the senior national correspondent for ABC's Good Morning America. She is married to Jay Carney,President Barack Obama's former White House Press Secretary. She is also Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University. Shipman served as Chair of Columbia's Board of Trustees during the 2024 Pro-Palestine Protests and oversaw the deployment of NYPD onto campus which resulted in the arrest,suspension,eviction,and sanctioning of hundreds of students,alongside her co-chair David Greenwald and President Minouche Shafik.
Brian Hanrahan was a British television journalist who was the Diplomatic News Editor for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Geoffrey Alan Hosking is a British historian of Russia and the Soviet Union and formerly Leverhulme Research Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at University College,London. He also co-founded Nightline.
Caroline Wyatt is an Australian-born English journalist. She has worked as a BBC News journalist for over 25 years,as defence correspondent until August 2014,when she replaced Robert Pigott as religious affairs correspondent until June 2016,when she revealed that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Diana Barbara Goodman is a New Zealand-born journalist who became the BBC's first female foreign correspondent.
Angus Roxburgh is a British journalist,broadcaster,former external PR consultant to the Russian government,and singer-songwriter.
Steven Barnett Rosenberg is a British journalist for BBC News. He has been its Moscow correspondent since 2003,except for being Berlin correspondent between 2006 and 2010. In 2022,he became the BBC's Russia editor.
Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva was a Soviet-Russian activist and philanthropist who was the wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Marina Frolova-Walker FBA is a Russian-born British musicologist and music historian,who specialises in German Romanticism,Russian and Soviet music,and nationalism in music. She is Professor of Music History at the University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in Music at Clare College,Cambridge. In June 2019 it was announced that she would be the 36th Professor of Music at Gresham College. She has authored several books and a number of academic articles.
Catherine Anne Merridale,FBA is a British writer and historian with a special interest in Russian history.
Michael Andrew Parker is a British physicist and is professor of high energy physics at the University of Cambridge. He is the incumbent Master of Peterhouse,Cambridge,having succeeded Bridget Kendall in 2023. Parker is involved with CERN's Large Hadron Collider project,and was previously the head of the department of Physics at the University of Cambridge,the Cavendish Laboratory.
Pilar Bonet Cardona is a Spanish journalist who has spent most of her professional career as a correspondent for the newspaper El País in Moscow.
Marianna Spring is a British broadcast journalist. She is the BBC's first disinformation specialist and social media correspondent.
