Iain Martin is director of Engelsberg Ideas. He is a Times columnist, and is co-founder and publisher of Reaction. He was editor of The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday, and deputy editor of the Sunday Telegraph and The Wall Street Journal Europe. He has written two books: Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy (2013) about the 2008 financial crash, and Crash, Bang, Wallop: the inside story of London’s Big Bang and a financial revolution that changed the world (2016) about late-80s deregulation.

Mattias Hessérus is the Director of the Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy and sits on the steering committee of the Engelsberg Applied History Programme at the University of Cambridge and King’s College London. Hessérus holds a PhD in History from Uppsala University and was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Columbia University in New York City (2007-2008), and a Visiting Researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris (2008-2009). He is the author of Rätten till Privatlivet (2017), a history of the press and privacy in Sweden and co-editor of several anthologies. He is host of History Lessons.

Paul Lay is senior editor at Engelsberg Ideas. He is a former editor of History Today, reviews for The Times, the Telegraph and Literary Review, and is the author of Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate (Head of Zeus, 2020), which was shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize.

Alastair Benn is deputy editor of Engelsberg Ideas. His work has featured in The Times, The Spectator, The Independent, Reaction, and CapX. He leads the Engelsberg Ideas podcast channel.

Jack Dickens is commissioning editor at Engelsberg Ideas. As well as commissioning articles, he manages EI’s interviews and book reviews, and writes about history and geopolitics. His work has been published in History Today, City AM, and Reaction, and he is currently writing a book on the 1881-1882 Urabi Revolt and the British occupation of Egypt.

Saffron Swire is Associate Editor at Engelsberg Ideas. She is also a cartoonist for The Observer and a culture writer covering arts, culture, and ideas, with bylines in Prospect, The Spectator, Time Out, Art UK, The New European, among others.