Oxford University (U.K.)

Sabina is the director of the recently launched Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at Queen Elizabeth House.  Its objective is to conduct research and develop capacity to operationalise a new development model focused on human wellbeing.  She is also research associate with the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University.  She is the co-author (with Edmund Newell) of What Can One Person Do? which brings together theological reflections on poverty with information about the Millennium Development Goals and practical suggestions for individuals and groups to work for poverty reduction.

Andrew is Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford and Director of the Quantum Information Processing Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration. He is a Professorial Fellow of St Anne’s College, an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and has over 450 publications. He is currently pursuing the application of nanomaterials to quantum computing. He has a degree in theology from Cambridge, and is a qualified pilot.

Andrew Dilnot, economist and broadcaster, has been Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford since October 2002 and Pro Vice Chancellor of Oxford University since 2005. He was for several years the presenter of BBC Radio 4's series on numbers, More or Less and of documentaries for British television. His main interests lie in government economic policy and its effects on the distribution of income, labour market behaviour, savings and pensions, and also the control and setting of government budgetary rules and the monitoring of fiscal policy. He was awarded a CBE in 2000 for services to economics and economic policy.

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 the relationship between the natural sciences and the Christian faith.

Edmund Newell is Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral and Director of St Paul's Institute, the cathedral's forum for education and debate on faith and ethics. He has a DPhil in Economic History from Nuffield College, where he was a Prize Research Fellow, and has written and lectured on issues to do with the interface of economics and theology. He is the co-author (with Sabina Alkire) of What Can One Person Do? which brings together theological reflections on poverty with information about the Millennium Development Goals and practical suggestions for individuals and groups to work for poverty reduction.

Professor Lionel Tarassenko is the current holder of the Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of Oxford, Founder Director of Oxford Biosignals, and is most noted for his work on artificial intelligence and the applications of neural networks.

Rev. Cyprian Yobera is ordained in the Church of Kenya and led a church of thousands before moving with his wife Jane and their two children to work with the Eden project in inner city Manchester as full-time CMS mission partners in this area of need. Previously, Rev. Yobera was the director of Kenyan Youth for Christ.