Distinguished friends
Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia
Riz Ahmed
Sughra Ahmed
Sir Keith Ajegbo
George Alagiah OBE
Professor Sir Michael Atiyah
Professor Peter Atkins
Julian Baggini
Dr Rob Berkeley
Richard Beswick
Professor Dinesh Bhugra CBE
Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC
Sir Nicholas Blake
Ian Blatchford
Lord David Blunkett
Dr Alan Borg CBE FSA
Mihir Bose
Alain de Botton
John Bowers QC
Rt. Hon. Lord Browne of Ladyton
The Duke of Buccleuch KBE
Rickie Burman
Saimo Chahal QC
Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE
Dr Jung Chang
Stephen Claypole
Professor Robin Cohen
Professor Linda Colley CBE
Professor David Crystal
Prakash Daswani
Lord Navnit Dholakia
Lloyd Dorfman CBE
Lord Alf Dubs
Rt. Hon. Lord Dyson
Graham Farmelo
Baroness Flather
Daniel Franklin
Dr Edie Friedman
Manjit S Gill QC
Teresa Graham CBE
Susie Harries
Naomie Harris
Professor James Hathaway
David Hencke
Sophie Herxheimer
Afua Hirsch
Lord Michael Howard
Clive Jacobs
Sir Adrian Johns KCB CBE DL
Shobu Kapoor
Jackie Kay
Ayub Khan-Din
Professor Francesca Klug OBE
Sir Hans Kornberg FRS
Tony Kushner
Kwasi Kwarteng
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE
David Kynaston
Brian Lambkin
Lord Anthony Lester QC
Joanna Lumley OBE
Michael Mansfield QC
Heather Mayfield
Sue McAlpine
David Miles
Abigail Morris
Hugh Muir
Tessa Murdoch
Sir Vidia Naipaul
Sandy Nairne CBE
Bushra Nasir CBE
Susheila Nasta
Eithne Nightingale
John O’Farrell
Julia Onslow-Cole
John Orna-Ornstein
Lord Herman Ouseley
Panikos Panayi
Lord Bhikhu Parekh
David Pearl
Caryl Phillips
Dr Mike Phillips OBE FRSL FRSA
Trevor Phillips
Sunand Prasad
Cathy Ross
Sir Salman Rushdie
Professor Philippe Sands QC
Sir Konrad Schiemann
Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Sedley
Saira Shah
Jon Snow
Robert Soning
David Spence
Dr Dhananjayan (Danny) Sriskandarajah
Stelio Stefanou, OBE, DL
Lord Dick Taverne QC
Andy Thornton
Robert Tombs
Lord Rumi Verjee
Patrick Vernon OBE
Edmund de Waal OBE
Iqbal Wahhab OBE FRSA
Yasmin Waljee OBE
Jake Wallis Simons
Sir David Warren KCMG
Iain Watson
Henning Wehn
Gary Younge
Benjamin Zephaniah
I am delighted to be associated with the Migration Museum Project. My mother’s parents were part of the late 19th-century Jewish diaspora from Central and Eastern Europe, and I have always been fascinated and inspired by the way in which successive waves of migration over many hundreds of years have brought such diversity, vitality and creativity to the United Kingdom. This exciting project, which will help people understand this experience, is long overdue, and will play an important role in celebrating the many areas in which migration has made a major contribution to British society.
Sir David Warren KCMG
Sir David Warren was British Ambassador to Japan from 2008 to 2012, having served twice before in the British Embassy in Tokyo during a 37-year career in the British Diplomatic Service, in which he concentrated on both East Asian affairs and on supporting British trade and investment worldwide. He was a director of the Government’s UK Trade and Investment agency for four years and a member of the FCO Board of Management, as Human Resources Director, from 2004 to 2007. He retired from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in January 2013 and has become a visiting professor at De Montfort and Sheffield Universities, as well as chairman of the Japan Society, the charity supporting UK/Japanese cultural, educational and business relations.