5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - February 2026

Jon Lee Anderson is an author and a staff writer for the New Yorker. As a longtime observer of political violence and revolutionary movements, he has reported from many war zones over the years, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Anderson also wrote a celebrated biography of Argentine revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and, in the course of his research, discovered the long-concealed whereabouts of Guevara’s secretly buried body in Bolivia. His latest book is To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban.

Oliver Bullough is the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Butler to the World and Moneyland, as well as two celebrated books about the former Soviet Union: The Last Man in Russia and Let Our Fame Be Great. His journalism appears regularly in the Guardian, The New York Times and GQ. His latest book is Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won.

Justine Picardie is the author of seven books, including the international bestsellers Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture and Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life. Previously the editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, she was an investigative journalist for the Sunday Times, columnist for the Telegraph, editor of the Observer Magazine and features director of Vogue. Her latest book is Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture.