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He is Founder, Chair and CEO of Lonestar Data Holdings, sending the first in a series of data centres to the Moon, and Founder and Non-Executive Chair of ManSat, the world's largest commercial provider of satellite spectrum. He is Chair Emeritus of the Space and Satellite Professionals International, alongside the late Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

He co-founded the Institute of Space Commerce in Austin and the International Institute of Space Commerce on the Isle of Man, has served on the faculty of the International Space University since 2003, and lectures on space law at MIT Media Labs, the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the University of Houston. He co-founded Geeks Without Frontiers and has served on the board of AMAR US.

He is a litigator specialising in contentious trusts, probate and tax matters, with clients including charities, trust companies and private individuals engaged in trust variations and disputes, and wide experience of court work involving trusts and tax schemes in the UK and offshore.

He advises on defective tax schemes, often for large groups of investors, and acts for families and trustees in onshore and offshore trust litigation. Chambers & Partners recommends him as one of the leading practitioners in his field.

He was Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Executive Committee at Gurin Energy, where he turned business plans into annual budgets and multi-year forecasts, maintained standards of financial governance, analysis and reporting, led the financial and modelling side of investment decisions and project development, oversaw debt financing and maintained relationships with banks, financial advisers and investor teams.

He holds an MA from the University of St Andrews and is an ICAEW qualified Chartered Accountant, bringing three decades of experience in finance and capital markets and a strong knowledge of the international investment and banking communities.

He joined IBBC's Board of Directors in 2017, and AMAR is IBBC's official partner charity. He has extensive experience working with British, Iraqi and US government entities, international organisations, think tanks, and the British, Iraqi, American and German Chambers of Commerce.

Before IBBC he headed Baroness Nicholson's political office in the European Parliament, worked in 2008 as a consultant to the Iraqi Council of Representatives for the European Parliament, observed the 2012 elections in Yemen, and volunteered for AMAR in Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and the United States. Since 2009 he has served as an aide to Baroness Nicholson in the House of Lords, supporting her work at the Council of Europe and with the APPG on Foreign Affairs.

In 2023 he established the Ukraine Britain Business Council, which he continues to run with a team of volunteers. In 2025 he founded the Syria Britain Business Council. He graduated from the Lycée Franco-Allemand in Paris, studied History and Art History in Berlin, Amsterdam and Düsseldorf, and is a Senior Fellow of Humanity in Action.

She started AMAR in response to Saddam Hussein's systematic persecution and extermination of the Marsh Arabs, and it has grown to become one of the leading charities in the Middle East.

A member of the House of Lords, she has chaired the House of Lords Sexual Violence in Conflict Committee and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Foreign Affairs, and has served on many election observer missions, twice as Chief International Observer in Yemen and Armenia.

She was a Member of the European Parliament for ten years, Vice President of its Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Defence and Security Policy, and Rapporteur for Iraq, Kashmir and Romania. She began her political life as a Member of Parliament in 1987, was previously a Director of Save the Children, and trained at the Royal Academy of Music.

A noted educationalist, he was lead adviser on AMAR's education work for decades. He is also President of the Oxford Muse Foundation. After graduating from London University and Christ Church, Oxford, he helped build St Antony's College, Oxford into the university's postgraduate centre for international studies and was its Dean for thirteen years.

His books focus on the role of the emotions in every aspect of life. His History of French Passions won the Wolfson Prize; his Intimate History of Humanity and BBC lectures on Conversation extended his research to all civilisations. His writings are translated into 24 languages. He is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, an Associate Fellow of Oxford's Said Business School, a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and of the Royal Society of Literature.

He is a senior energy strategist and government advisor with more than fifteen years across national energy policy, global oil markets and corporate strategy. From 2019 to 2025 he served as the first non-Saudi Director and Advisor of Oil Strategy at the Ministry of Energy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he established the Kingdom's first in-house oil and gas analytics function and led the development of its 20-year oil outlook. He previously advised the leadership of Saudi Aramco on global oil markets and covered energy strategy across the Middle East, Turkey and South Asia at IHS Energy, now S&P Global, in London.

Today he is CEO and Co-Founder of Majlis Energy Advisory in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's first expert-led strategic energy advisory firm, and Co-Founder of Majlis Vision, a GCC investment and advisory platform. He sits on the boards of Deepen AI, TOMOUH Community of Leaders, JeffMon Investments and Silverbacks Holding Private Equity. He holds an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from St Antony's College, Oxford, a Graduate Diploma in Law from BPP Law School, London, and a BA from Ruhr University Bochum, with executive programmes at London Business School and Harvard Business School. A German of Kurdish origin, he lives in Riyadh and speaks six languages.

Bishop of Derby from 2005 to 2018, with expertise in theology, church history, social justice, clergy training, leadership and spirituality, he is a member of the House of Lords and the Church of England's spokesman for international development.

He sat on the joint parliamentary select committee for the draft Modern Slavery Bill and supported the legislation through to Royal Assent in 2015. He is Independent Chair of the Anti-Slavery Commissioner's Advisory Panel and Vice-Chair of the Anglican Alliance.

He is Professor of Cancer Medicine at Oxford University, where he helped build a new Institute for Cancer Medicine and Cancer Hospital, and holds professorships at Weill-Cornell, the Second Military University in Shanghai and Xiamen University. He has an international reputation in colorectal cancer, over 400 papers and the first NHS Nye-Bevan award for innovation.

A Founding Commissioner for Health Improvement and author of the Kerr Report on the NHS in Scotland, he was made CBE in 2002, elected President of the European Society of Medical Oncology in 2010, and served as Health Adviser to two British Prime Ministers. He founded INDOX and Afrox to improve cancer care in India and sub-Saharan Africa.

An American businessman with nearly 60 years' experience, he has run the Salt Lake and Utah Chambers of Commerce. He served in Washington as Chief of Staff to Senator Orrin Hatch during the Reagan administration and went on to run the Federal Government's Small Business Administration.

Over three decades he has owned or managed at least four major companies in Utah and Nevada. In 2017 and 2018 he and his wife Joyce served as Public Affairs Missionary Ambassadors to the UK for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, based in South Kensington.

In a long leadership career at Shell his senior positions included Gas and Commercial Director for Shell Nigeria and Country Chair for Shell Iraq.

He is Leading Energy Advisor to the Iraq Britain Business Council, with which he has worked since 2010, and sits on its Advisory Council.

She is Chief Executive Officer of Xergy Consulting and sits on the Executive Committee of the Syria Britain Business Council.

She is Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of OiLSERV Kuwait and co-founded Kuwait Energy, where she served as Chief Executive Officer and Deputy Chairman. She has been a Non-Executive Director of Petrofac and held senior positions at Kuwait Oil Company and Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company.

Her part in extinguishing Kuwait's oil fires after the 1990 invasion earned her a place on the United Nations Environment Programme's Global 500 Roll of Honour. She has served on Kuwait's Supreme Council for Planning and Development and the Board of Trustees of its Silk City project, and has long promoted the participation of women in engineering and energy.