Contributors

Jonathan E. Hillman is the author of The Digital Silk Road, and a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State's Office of Policy Planning. He was previously a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which has been named the #1 think tank in the United States. Hillman is a world authority on China's economic and foreign policy. He has also served as a policy advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative, testified before Congress, briefed Fortune 500 executives, and his commentary has been published in the Washington Post, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

Beatrice Hitchman is an author and academic. Her first novel Petite Mort was nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Polari Prize, the HWA Debut Prize and the Authors' Club Best First Novel Prize. She currently works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Brighton.

Alex Holder is a freelance writer and consultant, who writes for ELLE, Grazia, Refinery29 and the Guardian among others. Her projects have been featured everywhere from the BBC to the New Yorker, while her campaign highlighting the gender
pay gap went viral and helped change an actual law. She has been named one of Business Insider's 30 Most Creative Women globally and listed by the Evening Standard as one of today's 5 Inspiring Female Leaders.

@AlexandreHolder

Uli Hesse is the author of Tor!, the definitive history of German football, a contributor to 11Freunde magazine and a regular ESPN columnist. He has also published four German-language books.

Peter Hessler is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of River Town, which won the Kiriyama Book Prize, Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, Country Driving and Strange Stones. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting.

Dr. Patricia Hewlin is an award-winning behavioural scientist with 20+ years of experience researching authenticity and conformity around the world. Currently on faculty at the Desautels Faculty of Management in McGill University, Dr. Hewlin is a native New Yorker who holds her PhD in organizational behavior and MBA in finance from New York University's Stern School of Business. Her work has been featured in mainstream media, including the Huffington Post, The Times, Harvard Business Review Online and Globe and Mail, and her scholarship has been published in numerous academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science and Journal of Applied Psychology, among others. In addition to her research and teaching, Dr. Hewlin is also a professional consultant who works with major pharmaceutical, retail and finance companies, as well as arts organizations (fun fact: she has playbill credits for Hamilton, Moulin Rouge, and more).

Dr Florence Hazrat is a researcher and writer, and a world expert on the history and culture of punctuation. A BBC New Generation Thinker, Dr Hazrat has appeared on Radio 4's Word of Mouth and is the host of a podcast on punctuation, Standing on Points. Her first book, An Admirable Point, a cultural history of the exclamation mark, was published by Profile in 2022.

She and He are the pseudonyms of a couple who first met at university and then lost touch. When they met again twenty years later, they began an affair which led to the Mistress Contract, which has been in force for over 30 years. They live in separate houses in the same city on the west coast of America. She is 88. He is 93.

John Hegley performs live in venues all over Britain. He appears on television and radio and his poems have been featured regularly in the Guardian. He has published numerous volumes of poetry, including My Dog is a Carrot[97880744586336], which sold 8,500 copies, and Uncut Confetti [9780413775702] which sold 4,000 copies.

Heinz Helle was born in 1978. He studied philosophy in Munich and New York. He has worked as copywriter for advertising agencies, and is a graduate of the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. Superabundance is his first book.

Olive Heffernan is an award-winning science journalist. Her work has been published in Nature, WIRED, National Geographic,
Salon, Scientific American and BBC Wildlife, among other outlets. Now freelance, Olive spent a number of years with Nature covering climate change, including as first chief editor of the research journal Nature Climate Change.

In 2019, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University as an adjunct lecturer and received a Giles St Aubyn Award for non-fiction from the Royal Society of Literature. In 2024, she was funded by the Pulitzer Centre to report on ocean conservation in Europe.

Her first book THE HIGH SEAS: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean was published in 2024. She lives by the sea in Ireland.

David Hendy is a writer, broadcaster and Emeritus Professor of Media and Cultural History at the University of Sussex. His books include Life on Air: A History of Radio Four, which won the Longmans-History Today Book of the Year Award and was nominated for the Orwell Prize.

Dr Jeffrey Herbst is the President of Colgate University and an accomplished scholar of international politics.

Stuart Heritage is a writer and columnist for Guardian, The Times, i and Esquire, and the author of Don't be a Dick, Pete. In addition to this, he has written for a range of publications and television programmes, founded and edited award-winning blogs. For two years running he was named as one of the 50 most influential emerging figures in the British media by Independent, an honour that has singularly failed to manifest itself into anything even slightly meaningful. He is also bald, as you may have deduced by now.