GAVIN ESLER

A journalist, author and broadcaster, Mr Esler is best known as the long-time anchor of the BBC’s Newsnight (2003-14). Before that, he was the BBC’s chief correspondent in North America (1990-98), and has also worked on Dateline London and other BBC programmes.

Mr Esler is the author of five novels and four works of non-fiction, including Britain is Better Than This (2023). He has won a Royal Television Society Award and a Sony Gold.

Mr Esler is a BAFTA member and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is an alumni of the University of Kent, and was awarded an honorary MA in 1995 and an Honorary Doctor of Civil Law in 2005. He is a former UKC Chancellor.

BARONESS NEUBERGER

Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE is Chair of University College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of Whittington Health NHS Trust. She was Senior Rabbi of the West London Synagogue from 2011 until March 2020 and is now Rabbi Emerita.

She is a crossbench Peer in the House of Lords, former Chief Executive of the King’s Fund from 1997 to 2004, and won a Harkness Fellowship to study healthcare ethics at Harvard University (1991-2).

Baroness Neuberger is a founding Trustee of the Walter and Liesel Schwab Charitable trust, set up in memory of her parents. She was a Trustee of the Van Leer Group Foundation and Chairman of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. She chaired the Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway for Dying Patients in 2013 and was Vice Chair, Mental Health Act Independent Review 2017-2018.

She is also a member of the Executive Board, Leo Baeck Institute London and she is a Trustee of the Rayne Foundation, she was also Chair of Independent Age and a Commissioner of the UK Commission on Bereavement. She is a Commissioner on the Integration of Refugees, a Trustee of Yad Hanadiv (Charitable Foundation) and Chair of the City of London Oversight Committee. Baroness Neuberger is Public Voice Representative, on the Jewish Community’s BRCA Testing Programme.

Baroness Neuberger is an author and broadcaster. Her latest book on antisemitism What it is. What it isn’t. Why it matters (Orion Books) was published in May 2019. She is currently working on a book on pain and how we approach pain relief.

STUDIO LENCA

Photo by Guillermo and Lucy Tomasino

Studio Lenca (also known as Jose Campos) is a contemporary artist from El Salvador, now based in Margate, Kent. His work is shaped by his own experience as a young refugee and explores themes of migration, belonging and memory.

Before working full-time as an artist, Jose was a teacher in South East London for 10 years. This background continues to inform his practice, which often involves collaboration with groups and individuals who have lived experience of displacement.

Jose’s work has been shown internationally, with recent commissions including MoMA PS1 in New York and Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. He is currently based at TKE Studios, founded by Tracey Emin.

Jose first began working with young people from KRAN in 2021 through Arts Education Exchange in Margate. Since then, his relationship with KRAN has grown through a shared commitment to creativity, education and supporting young people with refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds.