Sir Lawrence Freedman is Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London. He was the official historian of the Falklands Campaign, and a member of the official inquiry into Britain and the 2003 Iraq War ('the Chilcot Inquiry').

He has written extensively on nuclear strategy and the Cold War, and comments regularly on contemporary security issues. His book, Strategy, was a Financial Times and Economist book of the year; A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East won the 2009 Lionel Gelber Prize and Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature. His latest book is The Future of War: A History.

Charles Edel is a senior fellow and visiting scholar at the United States Studies Centre.

Previously, he was Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy at the US Naval War College, and served on the US Secretary of State's policy planning staff from 2015 to 2017. In that role, he advised Secretary of State John Kerry on political and security issues in the Asia Pacific region. Edel worked at Peking University's Center for International and Strategic Studies as a Henry Luce Scholar and was also awarded the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship.

Priya Satia is a professor of British History at Stanford University.

She is the author of Spies in Arabia published by OUP and her writing has appeared in the TLS, Slate, the Financial Times and Huffington Post.

She received a MSc at LSE.

Margaret MacMillan is Emeritus Professor of International History, University of Oxford and Professor of History, University of Toronto.

She is the author of Women and the Raj and the international bestsellers Nixon in China and Peacemakers, which won the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize, and The War that Ended Peace, The Uses and Abuses of History and History's People, all published by Profile.

Brendan Simms is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. His major books include Unfinest Hour - Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize) and Europe- The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present, which was published in 2013 to extraordinary reviews.

Thomas Rid is a professor at Johns Hopkins University.

He is the author most recently of the acclaimed Rise of the Machines (2016), a history of cybernetics.

He testified on disinformation in front of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

John Lewis Gaddis is an internationally renowned historian of the Cold War and has been called 'the dean of Cold War historians' by The New York Times.

He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University, is on the advisory board of the Cold War International History Project and has served as a consultant on the CNN television documentary Cold War.

He is also the author of numerous books, is the 2005 winner of the US National Humanities Medal and lives in New Haven.