The Delfina Foundation

Andrew Brown founded the 369 Gallery in 1978 to promote the work of young Scottish artists and The Gilded Balloon, one of Edinburgh’s best-known Fringe Festivals venues. In the 1980s he was prominent in forging artistic links between Britain and the former Soviet Union, mounting the first ever exhibition of contemporary Russian art in the UK. A distinguished watercolourist in his own right, he is active in Scottish cultural affairs and has written extensively on British art.

Mustafa Ali

Mustafa Ali is a Syrian sculptor and director of the Foundation Mustafa Ali of Damascus. He has shown his work throughout the Middle East, from Damascus to Dubai, over the past 20 years. Some of his public commissions include the Tower of Memory (Syria), the Umayyad Square (Syria, with Dr. Ihsan Intabi) and the Gate of Syria in the Mediterranean Olympiad (Pari, Italy).

Anthony Coleridge

Anthony Coleridge is a consultant to Christie’s Furniture Department. He joined Christie’s in 1962 and in the course of his esteemed career, he became Chairman and President of Christie’s, South Kensington. He was also the first Chairman of Christie’s Fine Art course.

Anthony Coleridge has also written extensively on furniture history, and is the author of Thomas Chippendale, 1968.

Jose Manuel Entrecanales

Jose Manuel Entrecanales is the President of Acciona, a global leader in infrastructure management, services and renewable energy.

He started his career in 1986 as an Associate of Merrill Lynch Europe Ltd Capital Markets (London and New York) before first joining Acciona in 1990, as a Finance Director. Between 1994 and 2000 he was Managing Director of Vodafone España, and was appointed chairman in 2000 until 2007.

In 2004, Jose became chairman of Acciona, S.A. and following the successful takeover of ENDESA, the leading electricity supply company in Spain and Latin America, Jose became Executive Chairman of ENDESA. He has been a board member of many institutions including, the Guggenheim, the Spanish Red Cross, the Universal Library, the Spain-U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Spanish Institutional Foundation.

Brendan Finucane QC

Brendan Finucane has practised law since 1976. He has extensive experience in common law and criminal law, particularly commercial crime. He became a Recorder in 2000 and Queen's Counsel in 2003

Brendan is treasurer and a member of the executive committee of the Bar Human Rights Committee, a member of the Bar Pro Bono Group and the FCO Pro Bono panel. He is also a long-time advocate for the arts, as director of creative organisations and enterprises such as Tempest Films, Modern Painters Magazine and the East 73rd Gallery. He has been elected a member of the Council of Tate Members, and a member of the Council of British Museum Friends, and is a trustee of Paintings in Hospitals, and of the City and Guilds of London Art School, where he is also Chairman of the development committee.

Martin Griffiths

Martin Griffiths is the founding Director of the Henry Dunant Centre for
Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva. Before taking up this position in 1999 he served in the United Nations in Geneva, New York, the Great Lakes region, and finally in the Balkans where as UN Coordinator and Deputy to Kosovo’s first UN Special Representative he helped to establish the UN Mission. Before joining the United Nations in 1994, Martin was Chief Executive of ActionAid, a development NGO, and before that, he directed the Asian, Middle East and Latin American programmes of Save the Children Fund. Martin is a qualified barrister and US attorney.

Helena Kennedy

As one of the country's leading criminal lawyers Helena Kennedy has acted in high-profile criminal cases including the Brighton Bombing Trial and the Guildford Four Appeal. She has spent her professional life giving voice to those who have least power within the system, championing civil liberties and promoting human rights.  She has used many public platforms – including the House of Lords, to which she was elevated in 1997 – to argue with passion, wit and humanity for social justice. She has also written and broadcast on a wide range of issues.

Baroness Kennedy has been the chair of the British Council since 1998. Other high-profile public appointments held by the Baroness include President of the School of African and Asian studies and President of Medical Aid for Palestinians. Helena is also Chair of Arts and Business and currently serves on the board of The Independent Newspaper.

Michael Moszynski

Michael Moszynski began his career at Saatchi & Saatchi, after graduating from LSE in 1986. In 1995 he launched the first overseas office for M&C Saatchi, one of the world's youngest and fastest growing global advertising agency networks.   M&C Saatchi Hong Kong became one of Asia's fastest growing agencies, winning the HSBC account in its first year.   When returning to the UK, Michael had specific responsibility for key global clients and developed the agency’s business across Middle East, Africa and Central Europe.

In 2008, and after 20 years at M&C Saatchi, Michael set up LONDON, a new advertising agency focusing on deploying the best creative talents from London to help clients solve business issues anywhere in the world.

Maria Muller

Maria Muller is the Director of Development at the British Museum. Before taking up this position in 2006 she was Deputy Director of Development at the National Gallery from 1997. Previous to her career in Museums and Galleries Maria was a Treasury Management Consultant at Prebon Yamane and worked for London Weekend Television and Sky Business News.

Clare Peploe

Clare Peploe is a British Film-maker. She collaborated on the screenplay of Antonioni's Zabriskie Point and penned the controversial script for Luna (1979), a drama directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. In 1987, Peploe made her directorial debut with the comedy High Season (1987). In 1995, she directed Bridget Fonda and Russell Crowe in Rough Magic (1995). In 2001, she directed The Triumph of Love , an adaptation of 18th century French novelist and dramatist Marivaux, with Mira Sorvino.

Khalil Rabah

Khalil Rabah is a visual artist working across video, installation and performance. He has participated in a number of international group exhibitions In France, Italy, Belgium, London, Greece, Germany and Switzerland. He has also participated in several Biennales, including the XXIV Biennale of Sao Paulo, the 11th Biennale of Sydney, the 1st Kwangju Biennale, the 9th Istanbul Biennale and the 5th Liverpool Biennale. Rabah has had numerous international solo shows and has undertaken various artist-in-residence programmes in Europe. He taught architecture at Birzeit University, Palestine and Fine Art at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem. Rabah is the founder of The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind and co-founder of Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem and ArtSchool Palestine in London. A current Director of Riwaq Biennale, Palestine, Khalil currently lives and works in Ramallah.

Baroness Elizabeth Smith

Baroness Smith is currently chair of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and President of Scottish Opera. She also leads the John Smith Fellowship Trust.

Among her varied roles, Baroness Smith was a board member of the Edinburgh International Festival (1996–1999), and sat on the council of the British Heart Foundation (1995–1998) and the BP Advisory Board for Scotland. Baroness Smith also served on the Press Complaints Commission (1996–2002), and is currently on the PCC’s Appointments Commission.

Jon Snow

Jon has been the face of Channel 4 News since 1989 when he became the main presenter. He reports major stories from all over the world, drawing on his years of experience as ITN's diplomatic editor and Washington correspondent. His main interests are Iran and Iraq. His range of international interviewees extends from Nelson Mandela, to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Tony Blair.

In 2005 he was awarded the Richard Dimbleby BAFTA award for Best Factual Contribution to Television.  In February 2006, he was named Journalist of the Year at the Royal Television Society Awards for his reports from New Orleans, Pakistan and Africa.  

Jon has been a Trustee of the National Gallery and Tate Gallery until 2008 and remains a member of Tate Modern Council.

Sheena Wagstaff

Chief Curator at Tate Modern since 2001, joined Tate in 1998 as Head of Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Britain. Since 2001, Sheena has initiated and led an extensive program of major exhibitions at Tate Modern, personally curating Edward Hopper (2004), Jeff Wall (2005) and Juan Munoz (2008). From 1993-98, she was Director of Exhibitions, Collections and Education at The Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, served on the Museums Panel for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg (1996) and was cultural leader for Leadership Pittsburgh year 1994-5. Previously, she worked at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. Sheena was the first British participant in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program (1982-3). She is an elected board member of CIMAM (International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art), the International Advisory Council for Istanbul Modern and serves on the Advisory Board of the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh.

Robert Wyatt

Born in 1945 in Bristol, Robert Wyatt started his career in the early 60s, as a drummer. As a founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine and his solo work, he has been an influential singer and composer since the 70s. In 2004, he was awarded the prestigious Mercury Prize, and in 2006, he was the winner of Mojo Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Kerim Yildiz

Executive Director and co-founder of the Kurdish Human Rights Project, Kerim Yildiz is an expert on international human rights law and the Kurdish regions. KHRP’s work has contributed to important reforms in Turkey, including the lifting of the State of Emergency and the abolition of state security courts. Kerim has received an award from the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights for his services to protect human rights and promote the rule of law, and the Sigrid Rausing Trust’s Human Rights award for Leadership in Indigenous and Minority Rights. Kerim has also written extensively, his most recent publications include The Kurds in Iraq: Past, Present and Future – Revised Edition (Pluto Press, 2007), The Kurds in Iran: The Forgotten People (Pluto Press, 2007) and The European Union and Turkish Accession: Human Rights and the Kurds (Pluto Press, 2008). A member of English and Kurdish PEN, his work has been published in English, Finnish, Russian, Kurdish and Turkish.