The Advisory Board

Agu Irukwu is the Senior Pastor of Jesus House for All Nations, London. He is a former investment banker and partner in a law firm as well as Co-Founder of a children’s charity called Bright Futures for African Children.

Alan McCormick is a Partner of the investment group Legatum. In addition to the commercial activities of the company, he and his partners have founded a number of collaborative philanthropic vehicles including the END Fund, Freedom Fund, Luminos Fund, and the Prosperity Institute. He is also a co-founder of ARC, the co-creator of the Legatum Prosperity Index, and Chairman of GB News in which Legatum has an investment.

The Hon Amanda Stoker is a columnist for the Australian Financial Review, host of the Sunday with Stoker program on Sky News Australia, and a fellow of the Menzies Research Centre. Previously, she was a Liberal National Party Senator for Queensland and served as Assistant Minister in multiple government departments.

The Hon Andrew Hastie MP is the Australian Shadow Minister for Defence, having served in the Parliament since 2015. He chaired the Joint Parliamentary Committee for Intelligence and Security and was the Assistant Minister for Defence. Prior to public life, he was an Army officer, serving in the Special Air Service Regiment.

Arthur C. Brooks is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public and Nonprofit Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership and happiness. Brooks is the author of 13 books and speaks to audiences around the world.

Austin Bishop is General Partner at the venture fund Tamarack Global, where he invests across AI, energy, aerospace and national security. He is a former hedge fund trader, and co-founder of AI-powered manufacturing company Atomic Industries, and is a leading voice in Silicon Valley on reindustrialization and pro-abundance companies.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a human rights activist, research fellow at the Hoover Institution, founder of the AHA Foundation, and host of The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast. Born in Somalia, she served as a member of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006. Ayaan is also the founder of Restorationbulletin.com.

Barry Strauss is a military historian with a focus on Ancient Greece and Rome and their legacy. He is the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies at Cornell University, Director of Cornell’s Program in Freedom and Free Societies and Corliss Page Dean Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution.

Ben Delo is a British entrepreneur, mathematician and philanthropist with a vision to strengthen maths education, free enquiry and academic freedom, the Commonwealth, and neurodiversity. Ben co-founded BitMEX, the world’s first crypto-currency derivatives trading platform, and was the primary architect behind the platform’s revolutionary “bitcoin-dollar perpetual swap.”

Sir Ben Elliot is a businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Co-Founder of Quintessentially and Hawthorn Advisors, he served as Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party (2019-2022) and was the Government’s first Food Surplus and Waste Champion (2018-2022). He was a non-executive Director of YouGov and is the UK partner of Din Tai Fung. Ben is the Honorary Treasurer of The Centre for Policy Studies, and sits on multiple charitable boards.

Dr Bjorn Lomborg researches the smartest ways to do good. With his think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus, he has worked to find and promote the most effective solutions to the world’s greatest challenges, from disease and hunger to climate and education.

Christopher Chandler is the Chairman and Founding Partner of Legatum. In addition to a career in international investment, he has worked with his partners to establish a number of the firm’s key philanthropic endeavours, including the END Fund, Freedom Fund, Luminos Fund, and the Prosperity Institute in London.  He is also one of the co-founders of ARC.

Rep Dan Crenshaw was elected to represent the people of Texas’s second Congressional District in November 2018 and serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In September 2016, he was medically retired after ten years as a Lieutenant Commander in the SEAL Teams.

Danny Kruger MP is a Member of the UK Parliament. He previously served as Political Secretary to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and chief speechwriter to David Cameron as Leader of the Opposition, and chief leader-writer at The Daily Telegraph. He recently published Covenant: the new politics of home, neighbourhood and nation.

Douglas Murray is a British bestselling author and journalist. His books include The War on the West, and The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity. He has been an Associate Editor at The Spectator magazine since 2012 and contributes regularly to many publications and news channels.

Eduardo Verástegui is a Mexican actor and filmmaker, who produced the recent summer hit Sound of Freedom. He is a social activist and an entrepreneur. Eduardo is currently an independent candidate for the Mexican presidential election of 2024.

Erica Komisar is a clinical social worker, author, psychoanalyst, psychological consultant and parent guidance expert who has been in private practice in New York City for over 30 years.

Dr Gudrun Kugler is a Member of the Austrian Parliament for the Austrian People’s Party and is the party spokesperson for displaced people and human rights. Gudrun is also an entrepreneur, a mother of four, and holds several positions in the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE.

Heather is CEO of Independent Women’s Voice, and President of Suasion Insights, LLC. Heather is involved in numerous organizations that share the mission of improving people’s lives by creating a freer, fairer, more prosperous society, including chairing the board of Independent Women's Forum, and serving as an overseer of the Hoover Institution.  Heather previously worked in finance and before that as an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal.

Baroness Helena Morrissey DBE is a British financier, campaigner, Member of the House of Lords and current Chair of the Board of Directors at the Fidelis Insurance Group. She founded the 30% Club, a campaign for more gender-balanced boards and is Chair of the investment industry's Diversity Project.

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is an Australian Senator representing the Northern Territory and serves in the role of Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians. Previously, she was a leader for the Fair Australia ‘No’ campaign during Australia’s 2023 ‘Indigenous Voice’ Referendum.

James Orr is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge, and Chair of the Edmund Burke Foundation UK.

The Hon Jason Kenney PC ECA is the former Premier of Alberta. Between 2006 and 2015, he served in several senior Cabinet posts in the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, including as Minister of National Defence. He now serves as a director and advisor to several major Canadian companies.

The Hon. John Anderson AC FTSE served as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia for 6 years between 1999 and 2005 alongside The Hon. John Howard OM AC SSI. He now serves in a broad variety of civic and community pursuits and hosts Australia’s pre-eminent politico-cultural video podcast.

The Hon John Howard OM AC SSI is the second longest serving Australian Prime Minister – having been in office from 1996 to 2007. He introduced national gun control laws and his government delivered major economic reform in the areas of taxation, workplace relations, privatisation, and welfare.

Jonathan Pageau is an artist, writer and public speaker. He is a pioneer in the revival of Liturgical Art for the 21st century. Through his podcast, The Symbolic World, he fosters the rediscovery of symbolic thinking and a vision for re-enchantment in the world.

Dr Jordan B Peterson is a clinical psychologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. Dr Peterson penned the global bestsellers Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life and 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. His new book, We Who Wrestle With God, was published in late 2024.

Katharine Birbalsingh CBE is a British teacher and education reform advocate who is the founder and Headmistress of Michaela Community School, an extremely high-achieving inner-city school in London, that attracts 800+ visitors per year. She is author of multiple books including Michaela: The Power of Culture.

Katy Faust is founder and President of Them Before Us, a global non-profit defending children’s rights in matters of marriage and family.

The Hon Kelly Craft is the former United States of America's Ambassador to Canada (2017-2019) and Ambassador to the United Nations (2019-2021). In these posts, she negotiated two historic agreements: the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) and the Abraham Accords, which were a significant step in the Middle East peace process.

Konstantin Kisin is a Sunday Times bestselling author, satirist, social commentator, and creator and co-host of free speech podcast TRIGGERnometry. In 2022, he published An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West.

Dr Leslyn Lewis MP is a Canadian Parliamentarian who made history when she ran for leader of the Conservative Party of Canada in 2020 and won the popular vote on the second ballot. She is currently the Opposition Critic for Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure, and Communities.

Louis Gave founded Gavekal in 1999 with Charles Gave and Anatole Kaletsky, he is now the non-executive chairman of ROBO Global LLC and a non-executive director at Evergreen Gavekal, a Washington-based private wealth manager. Louis also sits on the visiting board of Trinity College in Duke University.

Louise Perry is a journalist, author, and director of The Other Half, a non-partisan feminist think tank based in London, UK. Her bestselling book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution was published in 2022.

Magatte Wade is an entrepreneur and advocate for African dignity and prosperity. She serves as the Director for The Centre for African Prosperity of Atlas Network. Throughout her career, she has created retail brands inspired by diverse African traditions, most recently SkinIsSkin.com. Her first book, The Heart of a Cheetah, was published in 2023.

Manny Stotz is the Founder of Kingsway Capital, an investment firm focusing on Frontier Emerging Markets and viewing Bitcoin and other digital assets as a tool for financial freedom and global economic empowerment. He also serves on the board of the Sohn Conference Foundation London.

Lord Maurice Glasman is a political theorist, academic, and Labour life peer in the House of Lords. He is founder of the Blue Labour political movement and a Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University. He is also the Director of the Common Good Foundation.

Melissa Chen is the director of a business intelligence firm specialising in analysing China risk. As a Singaporean immigrant to the West, she offers public commentary about the complexities of China's rise and its global impact on the free world.

Michael Shellenberger is an energy expert, a best-selling author, and a leading intellectual of the pro-human environmental movement. He is a co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and the California Peace Coalition, and founder of Environmental Progress. He has also broken major stories including the 'Twitter Files'.

Mike Johnson is the 56th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and a Republican member of Congress serving his fourth term representing Louisiana’s 4th Congressional District. With two decades of previous experience in constitutional law litigation, Speaker Johnson previously served on the House Judiciary Committee, as well as the Armed Services and Natural Resources Committees.

U.S. Senator Mike Lee serves as the ranking Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, and on the Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining.

Miriam Cates is the former Conservative Member of the UK Parliament for Penistone and Stocksbridge. Miriam campaigns on issues around children and families, with particular focus on safeguarding, issues of age-appropriate sex education and gender ideology in schools.

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, where he served for twelve years as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History.

Nicholas Boys Smith is the founding Director of Create Streets and an influential writer on the design and history of our towns and cities. He was co-chair alongside the late Sir Roger Scruton of the influential Building Better Building Beautiful Commission and was a Commissioner of Historic England and chair of the Office for Place.

Rev Nims Obunge is CEO of The Peace Alliance and Senior Pastor of Freedom’s Ark. He serves as a faith and community leader with a passion for justice, peace, young people, equality, and social cohesion.

Sir Paul Marshall is CIO and Chairman of Marshall Wace LLP, and founder and owner of OQS  Media, the holding company for UnHerd and The Spectator. He is also a lead investor in GB News Ltd. He is a founding Trustee of Ark, the children’s charity.

Baroness Philippa Stroud is co-founder and Executive Chair of ARC, Member of the House of Lords, and Chair of the Social Metrics Commission. Prior to this, she was the CEO of the Legatum Institute and Co-Founder and Chief Executive of the Centre for Social Justice. She served as Special Adviser to The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP from 2010-15 and to the Prime Minister from 2012.

Rebeccah L Heinrichs is a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute. She is the founding director of its Keystone Defense Initiative and specialises in US national defense policy with a focus on strategic deterrence. She is also a contributing editor to Providence Magazine, a journal of Christianity and foreign affairs.

Rick Geddes is a Professor in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and a Professor of Economics at Cornell. He is Founding Director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy and a Non-Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC.

Riva Tez has a background in technology and finance, including co-founding an AI-focused venture fund and as an angel investor. She is currently working closely with Praxis on building a city.

Professor Robin Batterham AO FREng FAA FTSE is Emeritus Kernot Professor of Engineering at the University of Melbourne and is a former Chief Scientist of Australia.

Dr Scott Tinker is the CEO of Tinker Energy Associates, Chairman of the Switch Energy Alliance, professor at The University of Texas at Austin, and Director Emeritus of the Bureau of Economic Geology.

Professor Stephen Blackwood is the founding President of Ralston College, a new university in Savannah, Georgia, dedicated to the revival of humanistic inquiry. He has co-founded and helped to direct several non-profit organisations, from inner-city education to cancer research.

The Hon. Tony Abbott AC served as the 28th Prime Minister of Australia. His administration repealed taxes, secured borders and finalised free trade agreements with China, Japan and Korea. He is a director of FOX Corporation, the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, and serves on the council of the Australian War Memorial.

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and chairs the Military History Working Group. He is an American scholar of ancient and modern warfare and has been a commentator on contemporary politics for various media outlets. He is also a professor emeritus of classics at California State University.

Vivek Ramaswamy is a former Republican presidential candidate in the USA. He is an entrepreneur, political and cultural thought leader, and author. In 2022, he founded Strive Asset Management, an Ohio-based firm, that has a mission to restore the voices of everyday citizens in the American economy by leading companies to focus on excellence over politics.

Dr Warren Farrell was chosen by The Financial Times as one of the world's top 100 Thought Leaders. He is author of The New York Times bestseller, Why Men are the Way they Are, as well as The Myth of Male Power and The Boy Crisis. His forthcoming Role Mate to Soul Mate book emanates from 30 years of teaching courses on couples' communication.

Winston Marshall is a Grammy award-winning musician, writer, and host of the Winston Marshall Show. He is co-founder of the non-profit organisation Hong Kong Link Up.