Contributors

Graham is the Managing Director of Coleago Consulting Ltd, a boutique consulting firm specialising in the telecommunications, media and technology sectors.
Graham leads complex strategic and financial, multi-billon dollar projects around the world for clients involved in the telecommunications sector. Graham is experienced in advising on issues of strategy and value creation at board level, across a broad spectrum of communication businesses. He is a creative and innovative facilitator and business coach and co-author of The Economist Guide to Business Modelling and The Economist Guide to Business Planning. He is an expert in telecommunications strategic and business planning, business modelling and financial forecasting and valuation.
Before forming Coleago Consulting in 2001 with Stefan Zehle, Graham worked for Cable & Wireless where he provided internal consulting support across the C&W portfolio of mobile businesses including projects in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Australia. Prior to C&W, Graham worked as a management consultant at Price Waterhouse Coopers in the Financial Management and Business Appraisal Practice.
Graham holds both an M.A. and an M.Phil in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge and is also a Chartered Accountant. When not consulting Graham pursues his passion for skiing through the Extreme Ski School he established in Verbier, Switzerland.

Fiona Czerniawska is one of the world's foremost commentators on the consulting industry.
She is the co-founder and director of Source, a leading source of information about the management consulting market. Fiona has had almost 20 years' experience as a management consultant, primarily working in the areas of marketing and strategy, initially with Coopers & Lybrand, before moving on to be head of strategy and business planning for EY in the UK.

Keith Colquhoun worked for many years for The Economist and covered Asia before he became the Obituaries Editor. He is also the writer of more than ten novels including Killing Stalin and Filthy Rich.

Rita graduated from Cambridge and began her career in advertising. She worked at Saatchi & Saatchi for 12 years, becoming Vice Chairman and Executive Planning Director in 1995.
In 1997 she joined Interbrand, the world's leading brand consultancy, as Chief Executive in London; in January 2002 she became Chairman. She is in demand as a speaker and media commentator on all areas of brands, reputation, sustainability, marketing and communications around the world. Her writing has included the book The Future of Brands, and The Economist book Brands and Branding.
She is a non-executive director of Dixons Retail plc and of Bupa, and also chairs Populus, the opinion pollster to The Times. She has been a member of the Government's Sustainable Development Commission and is on the Assurance and Advisory Board for BP's carbon-offset programme 'targetneutral'. In 2006, she was appointed Visiting Professor at Henley Business School, and as a trustee of WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature) in 2007. She was made President of the Market Research Society in 2010, and her latest appointment is as Chairman of BTCV, the leading conservation volunteering and social enterprise group.
Last, but certainly not least, Rita has two teenage daughters.

G. T. Karber grew up in Arkansas, the son of a judge and a civil rights attorney. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas with a degree in mathematics and English literature before gaining a MFA from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. As the General Secretary of the Hollywood Mystery Society, he has staged more than thirty immersive whodunits in the Los Angeles area.

Born in London to Yoruba parents, Tade Thompson is a writer best known for his Arthur C Clarke Award- and Nommo Award-winning novel Rosewater, and the Shirley Jackson Award nominated novella The Murders of Molly Southbourne. His novels, novellas and short stories have also been finalists for the Locus Awards, the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Award and the British Science Fiction Award, among others. He lives and works in the United Kingdom.

Jean Patrick Manchette (1942-1995) rescued the French crime novel from the grip of Maigret and methodical police procedurals – restoring the noir edge by virtue of his post-1968 leftism. Jazz saxophonist, political activist, and screenwriter, Manchette was influenced as much by Guy Debord as by Dashiell Hammett. He remains an inspiration to the new generation of French mystery writers who have come in his wake.

James Birch is a curator who has promoted modern art exhibitions around the world for over thirty years. He opened his first gallery in 1983, followed by two more in
London over the next two decades. James has exhibited artists including Grayson Perry, Francis Bacon, Gilbert & George, Genesis P Orridge, Austin Osman Spare, Eileen Agar and Denis Wirth-Miller.

Megan Barker lives in South Wales. She has a background in theatre, and her plays have been produced at theatres such as Soho Theatre, Sherman Cymru, The Arches, The Traverse and The Tron. She also writes song lyrics, most recently for Quiet River of Dust by Richard Reed Parry.

Kandace Siobhan Walker is a writer and artist of Canadian, Jamaican, Gullah-Geechee and Welsh heritage. She is an editor at bath magg. In 2021, she was an Eric Gregory Award recipient and the winner of the White Review Poet's Prize. A poetry pamphlet, Kaleido, was published by Bad Betty Press in 2022. Cowboy is her first book. She lives in London.

Ingrid Swenson MBE is a curator and writer. From 1998 to 2021 she was the director of acclaimed arts organisation, PEER. Previous to this she worked at other London-based arts organisations including the ICA, Serpentine, Whitechapel and The Contemporary Art Society.

She has commissioned and presented the work over 150 UK-based and international artists over her long career, including Martin Creed, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Nelson, Siobhan Hapaska, Fiona Banner and more recently Jadé Fadojutimi, Samson Kambalu and Lubna Chowdhary. She is passionate about communicating visual art's ability to connect people and ideas across cultures, generations, and geographies.

Her celebrated book about art for young audiences, Masterpieces in Pieces, A Young Person's Guide to Taking Great Art Apart, was published summer 2022.