The Right Honourable Dame Jacinda Ardern was elected the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand at the age of thirty-seven, becoming the country’s youngest Prime Minister in more than 150 years. Since leaving office, Ardern has established the Field Fellow ship on empathetic leadership.

She is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University, continues to work on climate action, and is the Patron of the Christchurch Call to Action to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online. Ardern also works on a number of projects that support women and girls,  but considers her greatest roles to be those she will hold for life, including that of mum and proud New Zealander.

Pandora Sykes is a journalist and broadcaster. A former columnist and editor at The Sunday Times Style magazine, she has written for publications including The Telegraph, The Guardian, GQ and Elle and published two books, How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right and What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book. She now runs a popular weekly Substack, Books+Bits. She is the creator of numerous No.1 podcasts, including The High Low and Doing It Right and is the host of The Missing, an ethical true crime series about missing people. She has also written two audio documentaries for Radio 4, Pieces of Britney and Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV. A regular interviewer and panel host, she has been live on stage with authors including Bernadine Evaristo, Margaret Atwood and Bonnie Garmus and was a judge on the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction.