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Professor Peter BALDWIN Comparative History of Modern Europe; UCLA

Professor Arnulf BARING Historian and political analyst

Dr. Christopher BARNETT Headmaster of Whitgift School

Professor David CANNADINE Modern History: Author of “Decline of Aristocracy”; “Ornamentalism”

Professor Sir Bernard CRICK Edinburgh University; biographer of George Orwell

Dr Mathias DÖPFNER Chief Executive Officer, Axel Springer AG

Professor Sir John ELLIOTT Historian of early modern Spain, Europe and the Americas

Professor Niall FERGUSON Historian of empires, economic historian

Dr. Paul FLATHER Director of Europaeum

Robert FOX Journalist

Timothy GARDAM Principal, St. Anne’s College, Oxford

Professor Sir Michael HOWARD History of Warfare; Europe (esp. 19th/20th centuries)

Professor Olwen HUFTON * Leverhulme Prof of History, Univ of Oxford, fellow of Merton Professor Paul KENNEDY Professor of History, Yale

Professor Emmanuel Le Roy LADURIE French social history

Michael MACLAY Chairman, Montrose Associates

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Professor Margaret MACMILLAN Author, Provost of Trinity College, University of Toronto

H.E. Thomas MATUSSEK German Ambassador to UK

Dr. Dominique MOISI * Directeur Adjoint, IFRI

Rt. Hon. Michael PORTILLO MP Conservative MP for Kensington & Chelsea; former Defence Secretary

Professor Paolo POMBENI Bologna University: politics/constitutional history.

Dr Lisbet RAUSING Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College

Courtney ROSS-HOLST Founder & Chair, The Ross Institute & Ross School, New York.

Dr. Mary SAROTTE International Relations; Cold war

Professor Norman STONE Modern European history.

Marcelo SUAREZ-OROZCO Scholar in residence at Ross school; Professor at NYU

Sir Peter TORRY British Ambassador to Berlin

The Lord THOMAS Historian of Spain, Latin America

Professor Rosario VILLARI University of La Sapienza

Dr Gernot von GRAWERT-MAY Managing Director Deutsche Bank AG

Eckart von KLAEDEN Parlamentarischer Geschäftsführer der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion

The Lord WEIDENFELD

Leon de WINTER Author

Shaun WOODWARD MP * Labour MP for St. Helens South

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