Contributors

Oliver Morton is a senior editor at The Economist and an award winning writer. He is the author of Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World, Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planetand The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World.

Hugh Moss' father was one of London's leading twentieth-century dealers in Asian art. In the early 1960s Hugh joined his father's company, Sydney L. Moss, Ltd, and in 1968 set up his own London gallery. In 1975 he established himself in Hong Kong, representing some of the best Chinese artists working outside mainland China. He has since become a well-known painter and calligrapher, working under his studio name ('The Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat') within the Chinese contemporary ink movement. He is acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts in Chinese snuff bottle, scholarly works of art and modern paintings. He has been married to Blossom Lee Xuemei for more than thirty years and has three grown-up children. He spends most of his time in Hong Kong, but still travels widely.

Juliette Morton is a celebrant and community arts producer. She has won the Laurie Lee Prize, been longlisted for the Nan Shepherd prize and her nonfiction has been published in Caught by the River, the Oxford Review of Books and Elsewhere: A Journal of Place. She is the winner of the Geoffrey Dearmer and Poetry Archive Worldview Prizes and is highly commended by the Forward Prizes.

Dunya Mikhail worked as a journalist for the Baghdad Observer before she was forced to flee Iraq. Her poetry collection The War Works Hard was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea won the 2010 Arab American Book Award for poetry. Dunya Mikhail has also been awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. She currently lives in Michigan.

Barry Miles is an English writer, luminary of the sixties underground and businessman. In the 1960s, he was co-owner of the Indica Gallery and helped start the International Times. Miles has written biographies of McCartney, Lennon, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski and Allen Ginsberg, in addition to books on The Beatles, Pink Floyd and The Clash, and a general history of London's counter-culture since 1945, London Calling.

Catherine Millet is the editor of Art Press, an influential Paris art magazine. She has written books on modern art, including a monograph on the painter Yves Klein.

Born in Yorkshire, Rose Milligan later moved to North Lancashire, which was handy in her younger days for her love of fell-walking. Her poem 'Dust If You Must' was first published in The Lady magazine in 1998 and has since been quoted (and mis-quoted) in many and varied places. She passed away in 2024, beloved by many, including her great-great-grandchildren.

Tiya Miles is the Michael Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Cundill History Prize, and the Hiett Prize in the Humanities from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. She has been awarded more than twenty historical and literary prizes for her books and articles on slavery and race. She is also the author of Ties That Bind, The House on Diamond Hill, The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts and Tales from the Haunted South, a published lecture series.

John G. Miller is the founder of QBQ, Inc., an organisational development company dedicated to making personal accountability a core value for organisations and individuals. QBQ, Inc. has worked with handredsd of Fortune 500 and other companies, governmental and non-government organizations around the world. Miller is the author of the bestselling QBQ! The Question Behind the Question and Flipping the Switch: Five Keys to Success at Work and in Life.

Mike Mister was formerly the Global Director for Executive Development at EY Global and is now a partner at PSFI Llp and an Honorary Professor at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London. He works in supporting the development of leadership and change management capability in large organisations.

Stephen Mitchell is widely known for his original and definitive versions of spiritual writings and poetry. His many books include The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Tao Te Ching, The Gospel According to Jesus and Bhagavad Gita.

Aditi Mittal is a comedian, writer and actor. She has produced two stand-up specials for Netflix, 'Things They Wouldn't Let Me Say' and 'Girl Meets Mic', and her third special, 'Mother of Invention' is available on Amazon Prime. She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the UK Melbourne Comedy Festival and at the Soho Theatre in London.

Tessa G. Misiaszek is a speaker, writer and professor who throughout her professional and academic experience has examined the intersection between marketing strategy and workplace culture. Tessa completed her PhD at Simmons University in Boston and taught in the Simmons School of Management and Hult International Business School for several years. She also holds a master's degree in public health and a BSc in resource economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She spent nearly two decades developing human capital strategies to improve healthcare, with an emphasis on provider-patient communication. Today Tessa is an Instructor with Harvard Division of Continuing Education, co-founder of the Happy at Work Podcast, and a keynote speaker and consultant.