Albert Read has launched and led businesses for Condé Nast in the UK, and across Europe and Asia, overseeing titles such as Vogue, GQ, Wired, Condé Nast Traveller and Vanity Fair. A former journalist, he has written for The Spectator, the TLS, the Times and the Telegraph.  He studied Classics at New College, Oxford and has an MBA from INSEAD.  He lives in West London with his wife and three children.

Professor James Logan is a scientist, television presenter and internationally renowned research leader, with a passion for science and natural history. A biologist and medical entomologist with a first-class honours degree in Zoology, he won the Alfred Russell Wallace Award for his PhD. He holds a professorship at the world renowned and prestigious London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he is Head of the Department of Disease Control. James runs a large research programme at the university which sees him travel the world teaching and advising on various aspects of biology, entomology, parasites and disease control.