Ayesha Saran works for the Barrow Cadbury Trust, an independent charitable foundation based in London. She is the Trust’s Migration Programme Manager, managing and actively contributing to the Trust’s research and policy work as well as its grant-making in the UK and internationally. Prior to that Ayesha spent a number of years working for international organisations, including for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Albania and the International Organization for Migration. She is a Trustee of British Future, a Director of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate and also works in a non-executive capacity for Minority Rights Group International, an international human rights charity.

David Mair has worked for the European Commission since 1995 and in the Joint Research Centre (the Commission's science and knowledge service) since 2011. Since July 2016 he has been head of unit responsible for research, tools and training on the use of scientific evidence for policymaking, collaboration & knowledge-sharing and citizen engagement/deliberative democracy ("Knowledge for Policy: Concepts and Methods"). Between 2011 and 2016 he was responsible for the JRC work programme, science advice to policy and foresight. From April 2015 to December 2015 he was Acting Director for Policy Support Coordination.

Douglas Alexander is a Visiting Professor at King's College, Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, Visiting Professor at NYU, Council Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, Trustee of the Royal United Services Institute, and a Governor of The Ditchley Foundation. Mr. Alexander previously served at the highest level of politics in the UK, working as a Cabinet Minister in the governments of both Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, including Secretary of State for Transport, Secretary of State for Scotland and International Development Secretary. Alexander currently serves as a Senior Advisor to The Rise Fund (a global impact fund aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals), and to U2 Frontman Bono (advising on investment and development in Africa).

James Dennison is a part-time Professor at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, as well as a Researcher at the University of Stockholm and a Visiting Scholar at Universidad de Carlos III in Madrid. He has published in scientific journals such as the Journal of European Public Policy, European Union Politics, West European Politics, Social Science Research, the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Party Politics, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and others. He regularly offers evidence and advice to international organisations, European institutions, NGOs and international media. He has previously held positions at Harvard University, the University of Oxford and the University of Sheffield, where he taught quantitative methods.

Jane Green is the Director of the Nuffield Politics Research Centre and Westminster Bridge, Co-Director of the British Election Study, President of the British Politics Group of the American Political Science Association, Elections Analyst for ITV News' twice BAFTA nominated live overnight election results programmes, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for British Politics at the University of Hull. Jane is a co-author of Electoral Shocks: Understanding the Volatile Voter in a Turbulent World and The Politics of Competence: Parties, Public Opinion and Voters, and is currently working on a number of projects to understand levelling up, how voters think about place, the electoral importance of wealth on Brexit support, and the electoral consequences of the government's handling of Covid-19 .

Louise Casey is a cross bench peer in the House of Lords, Chair of the Institute for Global Homelessness and Visiting Professor at King’s College London. A former British government official, she worked on issues relating to social welfare for five Prime Ministers over the last 23 years. She was made head of the Rough Sleepers’ Unit in 1999, where she successfully led the strategy to reduce the numbers of people living on the streets by two thirds. She led a number of bespoke social policy programmes first as the Director of the national Anti-Social Behaviour Unit, then the Respect Task Force and later the Troubled Families programme, as well as being the UK’s first Victims’ Commissioner. She left the civil service in 2017 to establish the Institute for Global Homelessness and In 2020 she returned to public service to support the government’s Covid-19 rough sleeping response with the “Everyone In” strategy.

Paula Surridge is a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol's School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies and Deputy Director at UK in a Changing Europe. Paula's research focuses on social and political values, using large-scale quantitative data sources, both to investigate how these values have influenced voting behaviour at general elections, and more recently at the EU Referendum and to understand the relationships between social locations and social values. She has a particular interest in the relationship between education and social values.

Pippa Norris is a comparative political scientist who has taught at Harvard for three decades. She is the Paul McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, an Affiliated Professor at Harvard’s Government Department, and founding Director of the Electoral Integrity Project. She has also served as Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. She has served as Vice President of the American Political Science Association (APSA), and the executive of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the Political Science Association of the UK (PSA) and the World Values Survey Association, has served as the Director of the Democratic Governance Group at the United Nations Development Program in New York and the Advisory Board for International IDEA.

Will Jennings is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Southampton and Principal Investigator of the ESRC-funded “TrustGov” project exploring trust and trustworthiness of national and global governance. He is also Elections Analyst for Sky News. His research explores questions relating to public policy and political behaviour, specifically in relation to public opinion, political trust, elections, political geography, agenda-setting, and public administration. He is co-author of Policy Agendas in British Politics, The Politics of Competence, The Good Politician and The British General Election of 2019.