Vikas Shah MBE is Managing Director of Swiscot Group, a UK-based textiles and commodities trading firm, with operations worldwide. He is also Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship (The Lisbon MBA with MIT Sloan), an honorary professor at the Alliance Manchester Business School, President of the North West region chapter of TiE (the world's largest entrepreneurs network), a respected speaker on entrepreneurship, business, and social issues, and a regular columnist for British Airways Business Life magazine. Lemn Sissay MBE is an English author and broadcaster. Sissay was the official poet of the 2012 London Olympics, has been chancellor of the University of Manchester since 2015, and joined the Foundling Museum's board of trustees two years later, having previously been appointed one of the museum's fellows. He was awarded the 2019 PEN Pinter Prize. He has written a number of books and plays.