Lucy Parker is a Churchill Fellow and has more than 20 years’ experience as a strategic advisor with global companies across a range of sectors including pharmaceuticals, engineering, retail and telecoms. She heads up the Business & Society practice for the Brunswick Group, which advises companies on critical issues for critical stakeholders. She led the Prime Minister’s Taskforce on Talent and Enterprise in 2008-2010, where the flagship initiative was The Prime Minister’s Global Fellowship taking young people to experience the global economy first-hand.

Phil Avery is a Churchill Fellow and Director of Education for Bohunt Education Trust, a multi-academy trust serving over 11,000 students in the south of England. Phil is a Sinnott Fellow, previous STEM Leader of the Year, Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society and member of Rethinking Assessment, where he leads on Interdisciplinary Learning.

Marina Brounger is a trustee of the John Lyon Foundation, a governor of Harrow School and an adviser to Churchill Heritage. Previously she was a barrister specialising in criminal law.

Nick Danziger is a Churchill Fellow and renowned photojournalist specialising in global issues. He has won numerous documentary and photography awards, including the Prix Italia for a BBC film and a World Press 1st prize. He has published and exhibited photography worldwide and leads trainings in visual media, human rights and advocacy across the world. Nick’s work is held by many museums and has won the Royal Geographical Society's Ness Award.

Dr Carlene Firmin is a Churchill Fellow and a Professor of Social Work at Durham University. In 2016 she published the Contextual Safeguarding framework, a term coined by Carlene in 2014. This framework has been used to advance policy and research concerned with safeguarding adolescents in the UK and internationally, and has led to changes in social care responses to extra-familial abuse. In 2011 Carlene became the youngest Black woman to receive an MBE, for her seminal work on gang-affected young women in the UK.

Emeritus Professor Peter Liss, CBE is an environmental scientist at the University of East Anglia. A pioneer in the field of global biogeochemical cycles, he chairs several scientific committees, was a member of DEFRA’s Science Advisory Council and a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. He has been Executive Director of the International Science Council. Peter was awarded the Challenger Society Medal and the John Jeyes Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Liam is a Churchill Fellow and currently a Director at the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Before joining Esmée, Liam held senior roles at the Lake District National Park Authority and was a Non-Executive Director of National Park Partnerships LLP. Liam started his career in a range of roles in DEFRA and BEIS before establishing a successful marine planning and environmental consultancy business and taking on a non-executive director role in the Gardline Marine Science Group of companies. He is a trustee of Global Greengrants Fund UK.

Anna Morrison is the founder and Director of Amazing Apprenticeships, an organisation that works with government, schools and colleges, and many of the country’s biggest and best employers to champion apprenticeships and technical education and inspire the next generation of apprentices.

Flora Soames is a design consultant, named as one of the UK’s top House & Garden 100 interior designers. She was the Creative Director of Talisman, and in running her various UK enterprises, a champion for British and traditional craftsmanship.

Steve Tyler is Director of Assistive Technology and Transformation at the charity Leonard Cheshire. He has a history of developing sustainable and life-changing products around accessibility for disabled people, including leading the team that developed synthetic speech, which led to the voice of Amazon’s Alexa. Steve now collaborates with key players in the technology market as part of the Google Accessibility Strategy Board, the Microsoft accessibility steering group and as a programme lead for the annual M-Enabling Summit held in Washington, DC.