Karen Armstrong is the author of nearly twenty books, including The Great Transformation, A History of God, and The Spiral Staircase, a spiritual memoir.  Chair, Stephen Sackur, presenter of BBC's HARDtalk.

Robert H. Frank, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Economic Naturalist. He is the Henrietta Louis Johnson Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. Chair: Tim Harford, economist and FT journalist

Geoff Colvin, author of the bestseller Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers From Everybody Else, explains the surprising findings about achievement, work, and talent. Chair: Richard Cree, group editor, Director Magazine

Dr. Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, is a columnist at the Daily Beast.

Dave McCoy, RSA trustee and managing editor of the Global Health Watch, an alternative world health report; senior clinical associate in global health and development at the University College London and author of a Lancet paper that looks at the grants given out by the Foundation over the past few years.  Matthew Bishop, business editor at The Economist and author of Philanthrocapitalism: how the rich can save the world (Bloomsbury, 2008).  Chair: Richard Horton, editor, The Lancet