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EmailRt Hon Dr Denis MacShane has been MP for Rotherham since May
1994. He was named a Minister at the Foreign Office by Prime Minister
Tony Blair in 2001 and was deputy to the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw
and Minister for Europe from 2002-2005. He was the youngest ever
president of the National Union of Journalists in 1978. In the 80s he
worked for the international trade union movement, supporting
democratic trade union development in Poland, South Africa, Brazil and
South Korea. He has written several books, notably a biography of
Francois Mitterrand, accounts of Solidarity, the Polish trade union and
of the rise of independent black unions in South Africa, and a study of
the labour movement and the cold war.
Robin Shepherd is Director of International Affairs at the Henry
Jackson Society and a former Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House
specialising in Europe. He was previously the Moscow Bureau Chief at
the Times, a Senior Transatlantic Fellow for the, German Marshall Fund
of the United States, an Adjunct Fellow, Center for Strategic and
International Studies and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars. Robin is currently writing a book
about European attitudes towards Israel.
Michael Ullman has been a fellow of St Catherine’s College,
Oxford, since 2004. He has been involved in more than 40 different
entrepreneurial businesses since 1971. Michael was an affiliate
professor in entrepreneurship at INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France from
1987-2005. He helped the Entrepreneurship Department develop into one
of the most vital and popular departments in the business school. He
has an MA from St Catherines College and an MBA from INSEAD.
Alan Johnson is Professor of Democratic Theory and Practice at Edge Hill University where he teaches modules on the Holocaust. A co-author of the Euston Manifesto, and a co-founder of Labour Friends of Iraq, he founded and edited the online journal Democratiya from 2005 until its incorporation into Dissent in 2009. He is a member of the Dissent editorial board, a Senior Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Centre, and an advisory editor at Engage journal. His recent publications include Hadi Never Died: Hadi Saleh and the Iraqi Trade Unions (2006, with Abdullah Muhsin),Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews, 'The Reckless Mind of Slavoj Zizek', Dissent Fall 2009, and 'Aurum de stercore: Antitotalitarianism in the thought of Primo Levi, in Thinking Towards Humanity: Essays for Norman Geras, edited by Eve Garrard and Stephen de Wijze (Manchester University Press) 2010. He was part of the Progress Policy Group on Progressive Internationalism that produced the green paper 'Social justice, democracvy and human rights: shaping a principles-based foreign policy' (Progress, 2009).
Douglas Murray is a bestselling author, a political commentator and Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion. He regularly appears in the British and foreign press and media. A columnist for Standpoint magazine, he writes regularly a variety of other publications, including the Spectator and the Telegraph. Among his books he is the co-author of Victims of Intimidation: Freedom of Speech within Europe's Muslim Communities.
Dr. Alan Mendoza is a Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Henry Jackson Society. Having obtained a B.A. (Hons.) and M.Phil in history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Alan completed a Ph.D. at the same institution focusing on Anglo-American relations during the Bosnian War, 1992-1995. A frequent speaker on various foreign policy topics, Alan’s particular research interests are the transatlantic relationship, the Middle East and Russia. He represents the Society on various topics in the media and has appeared on the BBC, ITN, Sky, CNBC, Bloomberg and al-Jazeera networks amongst others. He also hosted the successful Worldview international relations TV show during its run on the 18 Doughty Street network. In the wider political world, Alan is the Co-Founder and President of the Disraelian Union, a London-based progressive Conservative think-tank and discussion forum, and has worked to develop relationships and ideas between conservative networks in the United Kingdom, United States and Europe. He is also a local Councillor for the London Borough of Brent.
Daniel Johnson is the editor of Standpoint, the monthly political and cultural magazine that he founded two years ago. For two decades he was a senior editor, editorial writer and columnist for The Times and the Daily Telegraph. In 1989 he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and is an acknowledged expert on German intellectual history. From 2005 to 2008 he wrote a weekly column for the New York Sun. His book White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard (Atlantic/Houghton Mifflin) appeared in 2007. He has contributed to the New Yorker, Commentary, the New Criterion and other American journals.