Distinguished friends
Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia
Riz Ahmed
Sughra Ahmed
Sir Keith Ajegbo
George Alagiah OBE
Professor Peter Atkins
Julian Baggini
Dr Rob Berkeley
Richard Beswick
Professor Dinesh Bhugra CBE
Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC
Sir Nicholas Blake
Sir 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
Sir 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
Sophie Herxheimer
Afua Hirsch
Lord Michael Howard
Clive Jacobs
Kevin Jennings
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
Neil Mendoza
David Miles
Abigail Morris
Hugh Muir
Tessa Murdoch
Sandy Nairne CBE
Bushra Nasir CBE
Susheila Nasta
Eithne Nightingale
John O’Farrell
Sir Kenneth Olisa OBE
David Olusoga
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
Michael Rosen
Cathy Ross
Sir Salman Rushdie
Jill Rutter
Professor Philippe Sands QC
Sir Konrad Schiemann
Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Sedley
Saira Shah
Nikesh Shukla
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 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.