Contributors

Tony Juniper is an independent sustainability and environment adviser, including as Special Advisor with the Prince's Charities International Sustainability Unit and as a Senior Associate with the University of Cambridge Program for Sustainability Leadership. He is a founder member of the Robertsbridge Group that advises international companies. He speaks and writes on many aspects of sustainability and is the author of several books, including the award winning Parrots of the World, Spix's Macaw and How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take To Change A Planet? He was a co-author of Harmony, with HRH The Prince of Wales and Ian Skelly.
His book, What has Nature ever done for us? was published in January 2013. He began his career as an ornithologist, working with Birdlife International. From 1990 he worked at Friends of the Earth and was the organisation's executive director from 2003-2008 and was the Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International from 2000-2008.
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Jeff Kanipe is the author of Chasing Hubble's Shadow and Cosmic Connection.
Photo credit: Nancy November Sloane 2012

Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. A visiting Fellow at the Kennedy School, Harvard, in 2008-9, he is the author of Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth (Profile 2010) and has written on religion and demography for Newsweek, Foreign Policy and Prospect, among others.

Sir John Kay is one of Britain's leading economists. A Fellow of the British Academy and Royal Society of Edinburgh, he was the founding dean of the Oxford Business School and has held chairs at London Business School and LSE. He is a winner of the Senior Wincott Award for Financial Journalism for his Financial Times columns. Other People's Money won the Saltire Prize and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. His other books include Obliquity, The Long and Short of It, Greed is Dead and Radical Uncertainty.

Marjoleine Kars teaches history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A noted historian of slavery, she is also the author of Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Kaja Kallas has been the Prime Minister of Estonia since 2021, the first woman to serve in the role. The leader of Estonia's Reform Party since 2018, she was a member of the European Parliament between 2014 and 2018. Before entering politics, she was a lawyer specialising in European competition law.

G. T. Karber is the award-winning creator of Murdle, the global bestselling puzzle sensation. He grew up in Arkansas, the son of a judge and a civil rights attorney, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas with a degree in mathematics and English literature, before gaining an MFA from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. His books have sold in over thirty languages and he is one of only three non-British authors ever to have published a no. 1 Christmas bestseller in the UK.

Thierry Jonquet was born in Paris in 1954. An exponent of the hardboiled style of French noir influenced by post-May 1968 politics, Jonquet is one of France's best-known crime writers. Tarantula was published as Mygale by Gallimard in 1999 and by City Lights Publishers in the US in 2002.

June Jordan was born in Harlem in 1936. Poet, activist, teacher and essayist, she was a prolific, passionate and influential voice for liberation. She published 28 books of poetry, essays, and fiction, was a regular columnist for The Progressive and a prolific writer whose articles appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Ms., Essence, the American Poetry Review, The Nation and many other periodicals. June Jordan died in 2002.

Simon Jenkins is the author of the bestselling A Short History of England (Profile), England's Thousand Best Churches and England's Thousand Best Houses, Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations and most recently A Short History of Europe. From 2008 to 2014 he was the chairman of the National Trust, and the former editor of The Times and Evening Standard and a columnist for the
Guardian. He lives in London.

Elfriede Jelinek was born in Austria in 1946 and grew up in Vienna where she attended the famous Music Conservatory. The leading Austrian writer of her generation, she has been awarded the Heinrich Böll Prize for her contribution to German literature. The film of The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke won the three main prizes at Cannes in 2001. In 2004, Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Rebecca F. John was born in 1986, and grew up in Pwll, a small village on the South Wales coast. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2014, she was highly commended in the Manchester Fiction Prize. In 2015, her short story 'The Glove Maker's Numbers' was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. She is the winner of the PEN International New Voices Award 2015, and the British participant of the 2016 Scritture Giovani project. Her first short story collection, Clown's Shoes, is available now through Parthian and she lives in Swansea with her three dogs. The Haunting of Henry Twist is her first novel, and is shortlisted for the 2017 Costa First Novel Award.