Distinguished friends
Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia
Riz Ahmed
Sughra Ahmed
Sir Keith Ajegbo
George Alagiah OBE
Professor Peter Atkins
Julian Baggini
Richard Beswick
Professor Dinesh Bhugra CBE
Karan Bilimoria (Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea CBE DL)
Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC
Karen Blackett OBE
Sir Nicholas Blake
Sir Ian Blatchford
David Blunkett (Lord Blunkett)
Achim Borchardt-Hume
Mihir Bose
Alain de Botton
John Bowers QC
Des Browne (Lord Browne of Ladyton)
Rickie Burman
Paul Canoville
Saimo Chahal QC
Reeta Chakrabarti
Shami Chakrabarti (Baroness Chakrabarti) CBE
Stephen Claypole
Professor Robin Cohen
Professor Linda Colley CBE
Professor David Crystal OBE
Prakash Daswani
Navnit Dholakia (Lord Dholakia)
Cllr Ibrahim Dogus
Sir Lloyd Dorfman CBE
Alf Dubs (Lord Dubs)
Sir John Dyson (Lord Dyson)
Damien Egan
Shreela Flather (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
Michael Howard (Lord Howard of Lympne) CH QC
Clive Jacobs
Kevin Jennings
Sir Adrian Johns KCB CBE DL
Shobu Kapoor
Jackie Kay
Ayub Khan-Din
Professor Francesca Klug OBE
Professor Tony Kushner
Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng MP
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE
David Kynaston
Dr Brian Lambkin
Anthony Lester (Lord Lester of Herne Hill) QC
Mark Lewisohn
Joanna Lumley OBE
Michael Mansfield QC
Sue McAlpine
Neil Mendoza
David Miles CBE
Abigail Morris
Hugh Muir
Dr Tessa Murdoch
Sandy Nairne CBE
Bushra Nasir CBE
Susheila Nasta
Eithne Nightingale
John O’Farrell
Sir Kenneth Olisa OBE
Kunle Olulode
David Olusoga OBE
Julia Onslow-Cole
John Orna-Ornstein
Herman Ouseley (Lord Ouseley)
Ruth Padel
Professor Panikos Panayi
Bhikhu Parekh (Lord Parekh)
David Pearl
Caryl Phillips
Dr Mike Phillips OBE FRSL FRSA
Trevor Phillips OBE
Sunand Prasad
Aubrey Rose
Michael Rosen
Dr Cathy Ross
Sir Salman Rushdie
Dr Jill Rutter
Professor Philippe Sands QC
Sir Konrad Schiemann
Richard Scott (Duke of Buccleuch) KBE
Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Sedley
Dr Maggie Semple OBE
Saira Shah
Babita Sharma
Nikesh Shukla
Jon Snow
Robert Soning
David Spence
Dr Dhananjayan (Danny) Sriskandarajah
Stelio Stefanou OBE DL
Lord Dick Taverne QC
Professor Robert Tombs
Rumi Verjee (Lord Verjee) CBE
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
Janet Whitaker (Baroness Whitaker)
Gary Younge
Benjamin Zephaniah
I am passionate that current and future generations are educated in the importance and significance of immigration – past, present and future.
Clive Jacobs
Serial entrepreneur and businessman who has created and invested in businesses for over 30 years. Best known for being the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Holiday Autos, which grew from a small room into the world’s largest leisure car rental broker before being acquired by lastminute.com plc.
Now owner and investor in the digital and media industries. Since 2009, the owner and chairman of leading media company Travel Weekly Group and, since 2012, the owner and chairman of The Caterer, formerly Caterer and Hotelkeeper. In addition to being chairman of Freeads Classifieds, also investor in and advisor to CarTrawler and chairman of two Canadian businesses: itravel2000.com and Tully Luxury Travel (formerly known as Cruise Professionals), the second of which he has also invested in.