Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian, and poet who served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. A leading intellectual in the Church of England.A leading intellectual in the Church of England, he is known for his deep theological insight, engagement with philosophy and literature, and commitment to social justice. Before becoming Archbishop, he was Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales. After stepping down, he served as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Williams has authored numerous books on theology, spirituality, and poetry, and remains an influential voice in public and religious life.

Alice Oswald is a distinguished British poet renowned for her innovative explorations of nature, mythology, and the human experience. Raised in Reading, Berkshire, she pursued Classics at New College, Oxford, before training as a gardener—an experience that deeply informs her poetic sensibility.​ Oswald's debut collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), garnered the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Her subsequent work, Dart (2002), a polyphonic narrative tracing the River Dart, earned the T. S. Eliot Prize. Oswald served as the Oxford Professor of Poetry from 2019 to 2023 and was BBC Radio 4's Poet-in-Residence in 2017.

Dr. Valentin Gerlier teaches at Schumacher Wild and the Temenos Academy and is guest teacher and lecturer at numerous other institutions including the University of Notre Dame (London Gateway), the University of Cambridge, the Catholic Institute in Toulouse, France and the Institute of Critical and Creative Writing, Birmingham City University. His forthcoming monograph is entitled Heaven’s Wildflowers: A Blakean Theory of Nature, Culture and Imagination (2026).

Alan Boldon is an adviser at the Centre for Climate Psychology, social entrepreneur, artist, curator, public speaker and writer. He has held leadership roles in Business, the arts, academia, and charities and is known for pioneering initiatives that bridge the realms of education, culture, and sustainability. As a consultant he has advised senior teams in organisations, including many Universities, all around the world. In his most recent venture as founder and Director of Weave he is creating an international network of bioregional learning labs exploring ways to engage with and solve complex challenges.

Ansuman Biswas was born in Calcutta and trained in the UK. He has an international reputation for his inter-disciplinary work between science, art and industry. An example of this border-crossing is his mapping of Vedic and Buddhist thought to modern debates in science and philosophy. He has an ongoing research interest in consciousness studies, in particular the subjective emotional correlates of objective physiological states. 

Sha Xin Wei PhD is Professor at the School of Arts, Media + Engineering and the School of Complex Adaptive Systems, and directs the Synthesis Atelier for transversal art, philosophy and technology in the Global Futures Lab at Arizona State University. He established and directed the pioneering transdisciplinary Topological Media Lab for gesture, media and responsive environments, which he transplanted to Montreal as Canada Research Chair in media arts and sciences. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, and Senior Fellow of Building21 at McGill University