Arena host: James Naughtie, journalist, presenter of Radio 4’s Today programme, and host of Radio 4’s Book Club, Chancellor of Stirling University and chair of the jury for the 2009 Man Booker Prize: formerly Chief Political Correspondent at The Guardian, and current affairs documentary maker.

• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
• Politicians going green make me see red
• Politics and environmental responsibility
• The Great Architecture Debate
• Climate change and the Logic of Life
• A new Bristol every year:  where’s the plan for 70m people?
• Good design can save the planet

Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart, Founder and Scientific Director of EPEA International Umweltforschung GmbH (Hamburg, Germany), co-founder of the Hamburger Umwelt Insitute, co-founder of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry MBDC, and co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things.

Jonathan Glancey, Architecture and Design Correspondent, the Guardian, formerly A&D correspondent at the Independent, contributor to various architectural magazines, including Architectural Review, Blueprint, Building Design, a frequent broadcaster, he is also author of ‘New British Architecture’, ‘The Story of Architecture’, ‘C20th Architecture’ and ‘London: Bread and Circuses’, an essay on the folly of contemporary urban development.

Sir Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director of Forum for the Future; Non-executive Director, Willmott Dixon and former Chair of the Sustainable Development Commission

Robert Napier, Chair of the Green Fiscal Commission, (the objective of which Commission is to prepare the ground for a significant programme of green fiscal reform in the UK),  Chairman, Homes & Communities Agency, Chairman of the Board of the Met Office, formerly CEO of WWF-UK, and CEO of Redland plc.

Tamsin Omond, environmental activist, member of Climate Rush, organiser of a number of high profile protests including scaling the roof of the House of Commons to protest against aviation (for  which she was later banned from entering Parliament), and the expansion of London Heathrow airport,  formerly member of  the activist group Plane Stupid: she likens her activism to the direct action taken by the Suffragettes.

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Quinlan Terry,  partner, Quinlan and Francis Terry,  award winning practice specialising in a classical Palladian style, winner of the European Prize for the Reconstruction of the City of Archives d'Architecture Moderne, the Richard H Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, and the Building of the Year Award in 1994 for the library at Downing College Cambridge.

Simon Jenkins, newspaper columnist and author currently associated with The Guardian after fifteen years with News International titles, former editor of The Times and The Evening Standard newspapers, author of books on London Architecture, England’s houses and churches and the architecture of Wales.

Rowan Moore, journalist & architecture critic for the London Evening Standard, formerly editor of the architecture journal Blueprint, and for six years Director of the Architecture Foundation.

Paul Finch, Chairman, CABE, formerly commissioner and deputy chair of CABE, chair of CABE’s design review panel, chair of its regional committee, chair CABE’s London 2012 design review panel since 2006: programme director of the World Architecture Festival, and editor emeritus of Architectural Review and Architects’ Journal. 

Tim Harford,  renowned behavioural economist.  journalist, presenter, member of the Financial Times editorial board, award-winning Financial Times columnist,  and author of ‘The Undercover Economist’ and  ‘The Logic of Life’, which have have been translated into 30 languages and sold nearly a million copies: he also fronts Radio 4's ‘More or Less’ and presented BBC2's ‘Trust Me, I'm an Economist’.

Sir Andrew Green, founding Chairman, MigrationWatch UK, former career diplomat he was Ambassador to Syria and then later Saudi Arabia, and Director for the Middle East at the Foreign Office, former Chairman of Medical Aid for Palestinians, member of the Advisory Board of the Sudan Peace Building Programme, and board member of Christian Solidarity Worldwide.

Mike Haines, Chairman, National Planning Forum, Deputy Chairman LGA Environment Board, Councillor on Teignbridge District Council since 1987, former chairman of the planning committee and development control committee from 2003 until 2007.

David Smith, Sunday Times Economics Editor, financial columnist, author of several books, including Free Lunch: Easily Digestable Economics, Mrs Thatcher's Economics and Will Europe Work? and The Dragon & the Elephant: China, India and the New World Order, formerly of the Henley Centre for Forecasting and Lloyds Bank.

Rt Hon David Davis MP, formerly Conservative Party Chairman, shadow Deputy Prime Minister, and previously Minister in the Foreign Office, Science Minister and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, before parliament he was a main board Director for Tate & Lyle and writer on industrial relations and management techniques.

Alice Rawsthorn, design critic, the International Herald Tribune, columnist New York Times Magazine, member of the Arts Council's Visual Arts Board, and the Arts Policy Committee, a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery, formerly director of the Design Museum in London, chair of the British Council's Design Advisory Group, and member of the Design Council's board.

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