FT Weekend Festival features leading authors, scientists, politicians and of course FT Weekend writers and editors BA
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
AI humanist, author and Google researcher
KA
Kitty Amann
author and trade advocacy specialist, Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey
AA
Anne Applebaum
author, journalist and historian
RA
Robert Armstrong
FT US financial commentator
DA
Dave Asprey
author and biohacker
LB
Lael Brainard
White House national economic advisor
RB
Rosa Brooks
professor, Georgetown University Law Center
WB
Will Bulsiewicz
gastroenterologist and author
ZOE
TC
Tarun Chhabra
senior director for technology and national security
and special assistant to the President
ZC
Zita Cobb
founder and CEO, Shorefast & innkeeper of Fogo Island Inn
JE
Jo Ellison
deputy editor, FT Weekend & HTSI editor
MF
Marc Filippino
FT news briefing host and producer
JG
Janine Gibson
FT Weekend editor
GH
George Hammond
FT venture capital correspondent
FH
Fiona Hill
senior fellow, Brookings Institution - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
BH
Beatrice Hodgkin
HTSI deputy editor
SH
Sonja Hutson
FT News Briefing producer and host
AK
Amba Kak
executive director, AI Now Institute
CK
Colin King
designer, Colin King Studio
MK
Margaret Klein Salamon
clinical psychologist, climate activist and author
AL
Alice Lascelles
FT drinks columnist
SL
Sean Leng
professor of medicine, molecular microbiology and immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
EL
Edlyn Levine
scientist, entrepreneur, investor
AL
Ashley Longshore
artist and entrepreneur
EL
Edward Luce
FT US national editor
AM
Angela Mackay
FT managing director, Asia-Pacific and FT Live global publisher
BM
Brooke Masters
FT US financial editor
EM
Eileen Moran
holistic health practitioner and founder of architectsofexperience.com
PP
Pranitha Patil
co-founder and COO, Function Health
N
Nancy Pelosi
congresswoman
PP
Peter Pomerantsev
author and journalist
CP
Charlene Prempeh
founder, A Vibe Called Tech
MP
Martin Puchner
philosopher and author
KR
Katie Rae
CEO & managing partner of Engine Ventures
LR
Lilah Raptopoulos
FT host of Life and Art podcast
JR
Jancis Robinson
Master of Wine and FT wine columnist
RR
Rebecca Rose
FT Globetrotter editor
AR
Alec Russell
FT foreign editor
MS
Michele Schifferle-Marzulli
cellist and founder of Supportivesounds.com
DS
Demetri Sevastopulo
FT US-China correspondent
RS
Radoslaw Sikorski
Poland's minister of foreign affairs
BS
Ben Smith
co-founder & editor-in-chief, Semafor
FS
Frederick Studemann
FT literary editor
JS
Jake Sullivan
US national security advisor
RT
Ruy Teixeira
author and political scientist
TT
Tara Thomas
managing editor of JancisRobinson.com
JT
John Thornhill
FT innovation editor
KT
Kristine Tompkins
conservationist and president and co-founder
Tompkins Conservation
AW
Albert Wenger
managing partner, Union Square Ventures
GW
Gucci Westman
makeup artist and founder, Westman Atelier
IW
Isabel Wilkinson Schor
founder and creative director, Attersee
AW
Aime Williams
FT US climate reporter
JW
Jennifer Wines
founder and author of Invisible Wealth
MW
Martin Wolf
FT chief economics commentator
AW
Alexandr Wang
CEO, Scale AI