Hans Ulrich Obrist is Co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London. Prior to this he was Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris from 2000 to 2006, as well as curator of Museum in progress, Vienna, from 1993 to 2000. Obrist has co-curated over 250 exhibitions since his first exhibition, the Kitchen show (World Soup) in 1991 to 1994; Take Me, I’m Yours, 1995; Manifesta 1, 1996; Laboratorium, 1999; Cities on the Move, 1997; Live/Life, 1996; Nuit Blanche, 1998; 1st Berlin Biennale, 1998; Utopia Station, 2003; 2nd Guangzhou Triennale, 2005; Dakar Biennale, 2004; 1st & 2nd Moscow Biennale, 2005 and 2007; Lyon Biennale, 2007; Yokohama Triennale, 2008 and Indian Highway, 2008-2011. Obrist has contributed to over 200 book projects, his recent publications include ‘A Brief History of Curating’, ‘Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Curating But Were Afraid To Ask’, The Conversation Series (Vol. 1-20.), ‘Ai Weiwei Speaks’ and ‘Interviews Vol. 2’. He is also contributing editor of Abitare Magazine, Artforum, Paradis Magazine and 032c Magazine.

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Pinky Lilani OBE was born in Calcutta India and came to the UK after a whirlwind courtship of 3 weeks knowing no one and totally lacking culinary skills. She works in the differing areas of food and the empowerment of women — bringing them together at every opportunity. Founder and Chairman of THE ASIAN WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS, THE WOMEN OF THE FUTURE AWARDS, THE AMBASSADORS PROGRAMME and THE GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT AWARD. A firm believer in the importance of interfaith dialogue she is cofounder of the WOMENS INTERFAITH NETWORK. A Food guru she has advised supermarkets, written cook books and runs motivating and team building days for major corporations based around Indian food. She is Patron of several charities and was named as one of the 100 most entrepreneurial women in the UK as well as being on the 30 most powerful Muslim women’s list.

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Clive Stafford Smith was born in Cambridge, England in 1959. He studied Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Further Mathematics in Oxford, Political Science at Chapel Hill, NC, and obtained a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, NY. He is a British lawyer who specialized in the areas of civil rights and the death penalty in the United States of America and is now the Legal Director of the UK branch of the human rights not-for-profit Reprieve. In 2005 he received the Gandhi International Peace Award.

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Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of two previous bestsellers, Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats, and two collections, Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness and What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness and his latest book — also a Sunday Times top ten bestseller — is The Psychopath Test. Jon Ronson lives with his family in London.

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