Cambridge University (U.K.)

Baroness Caroline Cox was created a Life Peer in 1982 and was Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom from 1986 to 2005. She was Founder Chancellor of Bournemouth University from 1991-2001 and is Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. Her international humanitarian work includes serving as non-executive director of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation, trustee of MERLIN (Medical Emergency Relief International), and the Siberian Medical University and Chief Executive of HART (Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust). Baroness Cox has been honored with the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and the Wilberforce Award for her humanitarian work. She has also been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Honorary Doctorates by universities in the UK, the US, the Russian Federation and Armenia. Baroness Cox's humanitarian work has taken her on several missions to conflict zones, including Armenia, the Sudan, Nigeria, the Burmese jungles and Indonesia. She recently visited North Korea, to help promote parliamentary initiatives and medical programs and has been instrumental in helping change policies for orphaned and abandoned children in the Former Soviet Union.

Prof. Alister McGrath holds first class honours degrees in both Chemistry and Theology, a DPhil in natural sciences, and has published works in historical and systematic theology as well as on the relationship between the natural sciences and the Christian faith. A former atheist, he is heavily involved in the debate between Christianity and atheism, and is the author of the best-selling response to Richard Dawkin's book "The God Delusion".

The Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS is a leading exponent of the relationship between science and religion and winner of the 2002 Templeton Prize. Following important contributions to the study of elementary particle physics, he became Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge in 1968 and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974. In 1979 he resigned his professorship to train for the Anglican priesthood. After posts as a parish priest and Dean of Trinity Hall, he became President of Queens' College Cambridge until 1996. He received a knighthood in 1997 for distinguished service to science, religion, learning and medical ethics. He has written a number of books about the compatibility of science and religion including The Way the World Is (1983), his Gifford Lectures The Faith of a Physicist (1994) and Belief in God in an Age of Science (1998).

Dr. Elaine Storkey has lectured in Theology at Oxford University since 2003. Before that, she was a member of the Theology Faculty at Kings College, London and lectured also for Birkbeck College, London. For eight years she was the director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. She is the author of eight books, and has contributed to dozens more. She writes regularly for four newspapers, and is a regular broadcaster for the BBC.