Associate Professor, Northumbria Law School
Dr. Kyriakos Kotsoglou is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University. Prior to this he held academic positions in Lausanne, Switzerland; Liverpool Hope; and Freiburg, Germany. Kyri is a Criminal Evidence and Criminal Law scholar with a special interest for evidence & proof and (analytic) legal theory. He has eight years of teaching experience in higher education in the U.K. and Germany. He has been a Fellow of the HEA since 2018 and is a member of the Lausanne-based interdisciplinary group NORDECS doing research in a variety of areas including in the field of expert witness testimony.
Kyri’s scholarly work has been cited extensively by the most authoritative commentaries on the German Penal Code and Criminal Procedure; and he has been cited and quoted extensively at the Greek Court of Appeal in Athens where his work on DNA-evidence, in a high-profile case, led to the acquittal of a (falsely) convicted appellant.
Kyri is the Programme Leader for the LLM Framework at the Northumbria University School of Law, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Evidence & Criminal Justice Studies at the same Institution. He regularly provides expert advice to law practitioners and companies.
Kyri teaches and publishes in English, German and Greek.
Follow Kyri on X @Kyriakos_Law
Undergraduate at Durham University & Outreach Officer at Durham Union Society
Oli is a first year Politics & International Relations undergraduate at Durham University. He is the Outreach Officer and Speakers’ Secretary-Elect at the Durham Union Society, Durham’s largest and oldest society founded in 1842. Oli is responsible for organising the Michaelmas term card with the President. He worked on the Conservative Party leadership race in 2022, is passionate about all things politics, and plans to go into government advisory in the future.
student at Durham University & Easter 2024 President, Durham Union Society
Matthew is a final-year Economics student at Durham University. He is the Easter 2024 President of the Durham Union Society, Durham’s largest and oldest student society. He is a Next Generation Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, Britain’s leading free-market think tank, researching higher education policy. He is also a Policy Fellow of the Pinsker Centre, a foreign policy think tank. After graduation, Matthew will join an American Investment Bank as a Financial Analyst. In the long term, Matthew aspires to a career in public service.
Follow Matthew on Twitter @MatthewJBrooker
Hertfordshire Organiser Reform UK, prospective parliamentary candidate for Harpenden and Berkhamsted
Saba is the Hertfordshire Coordinator for the Reform Party, and Prospective Party Candidate for ReformUK in Harpenden & Berkhamsted. He works full time in the social housing sector, and, as a passionate believer in free speech and open debate, he also volunteers when he can with the Free Speech Union, Debating Matters and the Battle of Ideas Festival.
barrister, hereditary peer and crossbench member of the House of Lords
Lord Oaksey practises at the Bar as Patrick Lawrence KC, specialising in commercial law, professional misconduct and negligence, and public law. He has been a crossbench peer in the House of Lords since 2017.
international speaker and broadcaster. Member of the House of Lords
Lord Ranger of Northwood is a member of the House of Lords. He has been a leading figure in the development and communication of innovate, technology led services and has a unique record of working in politics, the public and private sectors over the last twenty-five years. He has been a trusted adviser to senior politicians, chief executives and boards and has led teams through major project delivery, large scale transformational programmes, reputation and communications crises, as well as driving corporate and public affairs campaigns.
Kulveer was part of the team that delivered the London Oystercard and spent four years working for the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, leading the transport and environment briefs and establishing the Digital London Office. His time at City Hall included preparing for the 2012 Olympics, making the case for Crossrail, leading on ground-breaking initiatives such as the cycle hire scheme and Tech City.
Most recently he was a senior executive at Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, and established and led the strategic corporate communications function across Northern Europe, APAC and India.
Kulveer has sat on various boards including Transport for London and Bristol 2015 European Green Capital City and is currently a member of the West Midlands Digital Advisory Board and the board of techUK. He is an international public speaker, a regular broadcaster for TV and radio and a passionate Tottenham Hotspur FC fan.
undergraduate, reading Politics and International Relations at LSE
Stanislaus Huepfl is a final-year student at the LSE reading Politics and International Relations.
He is an alumnus of Living Freedom, and believes strongly in the importance of political participation and debate among young people. He is particularly interested in political theory, and plans to pursue an MPhil at the University of Oxford next year.
Beyond studying, he enjoys classical music, running, and spending time with family.
user-centred designer; project assistant, Academy of Ideas
Eleanor Kavanagh-Brown is a freelance user-centred designer, and is also a project assistant at the Academy of Ideas. She was previously a software engineer, working in the fields of data science and cybersecurity. She has witnessed up close the rapid development of AI, alongside huge growth in power among the largest technology companies. She has become increasingly engaged by the questions that these developments raise concerning the roles of technology, big business and government.
Labour principal spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, House of Lords
David Triesman is Labour’s principal spokesperson on Foreign Affairs in the House of Lords. David entered the Lords as a life peer in 2004.
David is an experienced member of parliament and held several ministerial positions in the previous Labour government. He was a government whip (2004-2005) and spoke from the government frontbench on a wide range of subjects including Transport (2004), Education and Skills (2004-2005), Trade and Industry (2004-2005), International Development (2004-2005), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (2004-2007) being promoted to parliamentary under-secretary of state for FCO (2005-2007) and Intellectual Property and Quality (2007-2008).
In 2008, David left government to take up the position of national chair of the Football Association, a post he held until 2010. Before coming to the Lords, David was general secretary of the Labour Party (2001-2003) and also served as general secretary of the Association of University Teachers (1993-2001). David has been the chairman and a director in a number of large companies since the mid-1980s and is currently the chairman of the board of advisers of the merchant bank, Templewood, and a member of the board of property developer Augur Buchler.
Outside the House of Lords, he divides his time between his wife and young daughter, and his passion for Tottenham Hotspur.
founder of the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness (SCSC); author, On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation
Kim Samuel is a leading voice in the global movement for belonging. She is the author of On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation, an exploration of the crisis of social isolation and humanity’s right to belong. She is also the founder of the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness (SCSC), a ‘think-and-do tank’ that partners with leading advocacy groups and research organizations to combat social isolation and build belonging around the world.
In addition, Kim is a research fellow at the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford, and an associate fellow at Green Templeton College, also at the University of Oxford.
