Dr Sarah Stein Lubrano holds a PhD from the University of Oxford and a Master’s degree from the University of Cambridge. Her thinking often reaches the public through the Sense and Solidarity Initiative and the Future Narratives Lab. She was previously the Head of Content at The School of Life, tutored in prisons and wrote obituaries. She regularly appears on public radio and a variety of podcasts.

Tim Finch is a novelist.  His first novel The House of Journalists was published in the UK and the US to acclaim in 2013. Tim’s second novel, Peace Talks (2020) was named on the shortlist for the prestigious Costa Book Awards. In 2016, he was among the contributors to a prestigious anthology of writing on the refugee crisis, A Country of Refuge. In 2016 and 2017, he worked as a writer and creative consultant on an epic documentary called Human Flow directed by the world-famous artist and activist, Ai Weiwei. Tim started his career as a journalist at the BBC, rising to senior editorial positions at the Political Unit in Westminster, before moving to the leading progressive think tank, the Institute of Public Policy Research in 2008, where he was Head of Migration Research and Director of Communications.  In 2016, he set up IMIX, a communications agency specialising in migration work.  In 2017 he became the founding director of Sponsor Refugees, and is now a trustee of Reset, a charity specialising in community-led welcome of refugees. He helped to found the arts and migration organisation, Counterpoints Arts, and was its chair for ten years until May 2022.