Distinguished friends
Nikesh Shukla
Kevin Jennings
Riz Ahmed
Neil Mendoza
David Olusoga
Eithne Nightingale
Gary Younge
The Duke of Buccleuch KBE
Naomie Harris
Lord Rumi Verjee
Iain Watson
Tessa Murdoch
Shobu Kapoor
Jackie Kay
Lloyd Dorfman CBE
Michael Rosen
Sunand Prasad
Sophie Herxheimer
John Orna-Ornstein
Robert Soning
Stelio Stefanou, OBE, DL
Yasmin Waljee OBE
Robert Tombs
Cathy Ross
Sir Adrian Johns KCB CBE DL
David Kynaston
David Pearl
John Bowers QC
Iqbal Wahhab OBE FRSA
Bushra Nasir CBE
Prakash Daswani
Clive Jacobs
Sughra Ahmed
Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia
Daniel Franklin
Henning Wehn
Jake Wallis Simons
Saimo Chahal QC
Brian Lambkin
Heather Mayfield
Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE
Lord Bhikhu Parekh
Saira Shah
Lord Navnit Dholakia
Trevor Phillips
Dr Edie Friedman
Susie Harries
Rt. Hon. Lord Browne of Ladyton
Susheila Nasta
Tony Kushner
Julian Baggini
Panikos Panayi
Kwasi Kwarteng
Stephen Claypole
Andy Thornton
Patrick Vernon OBE
Abigail Morris
Sir David Warren KCMG
Professor David Crystal
Dr Alan Borg CBE FSA
Professor Linda Colley CBE
Sandy Nairne CBE
David Miles
Dr Dhananjayan (Danny) Sriskandarajah
Professor Dinesh Bhugra CBE
Baroness Flather
Professor Peter Atkins
Dr Mike Phillips OBE FRSL FRSA
George Alagiah OBE
David Spence
Rickie Burman
Sue McAlpine
Lord Michael Howard
Edmund de Waal OBE
Benjamin Zephaniah
Professor Philippe Sands QC
Lord Dick Taverne QC
Jon Snow
Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Sedley
Sir Konrad Schiemann
Sir Salman Rushdie
Caryl Phillips
Lord Herman Ouseley
Julia Onslow-Cole
John O’Farrell
Hugh Muir
Michael Mansfield QC
Joanna Lumley OBE
Lord Anthony Lester QC
Sir Hans Kornberg FRS
Professor Francesca Klug OBE
Ayub Khan-Din
Afua Hirsch
Professor James Hathaway
Teresa Graham CBE
Manjit S Gill QC
Graham Farmelo
Rt. Hon. Lord Dyson
Lord Alf Dubs
Alain de Botton
Professor Robin Cohen
Dr Jung Chang
Baroness Shami Chakrabarti CBE
Lord David Blunkett
Ian Blatchford
Sir Nicholas Blake
Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC
Richard Beswick
Dr Rob Berkeley
Professor Sir Michael Atiyah
Sir Keith Ajegbo
Mihir Bose
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.