Professor Ambreena Manji is the Professor of Land Law and Development at Cardiff University

Professor Anthony Lilley is the CEO & Chief Creative Officer of Magic Lantern Productions Ltd and Professor of Creative Industries at Ulster University

Ms Catherine Mallyon is the Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company

Professor Chris Wickham is the Chichele Professor of Medieval History emeritus at the University of Oxford and is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham

Professor Sir David Eastwood is the Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of Birmingham

Professor David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, broadcaster and BAFTA award-winning presenter and filmmaker

Professor Sir Drummond Bone is the Senior Independent Member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Chair the Wordsworth Trust.

Professor Fiona Macpherson is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience at the University of Glasgow

Professor Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh

Professor Dame Janet Beer is the Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool

Dame Judith Macgregor DCMG LVO is former British High Commissioner to South Africa, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Professor Hagan Bayley is Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford