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Dr Whyte is a former leader of the ACT party of New Zealand, which now forms part of New Zealand’s coalition government. Before leading ACT, he worked as a philosophy lecturer at Cambridge University and as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman and BCG. Since leaving New Zealand politics, he has worked as the Director of Research at the Institute of Economic Affairs and as a founding partner of CA Partners, a litigation risk-management firm. Jamie is the author of five books, including the best-selling Crimes Against Logic, and more than 200 opinion articles in newspapers including the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times (of London), the Daily Telegraph and the New Zealand Herald. He has won several prizes for his writing on economics and philosophy. Jamie has also made many appearances on TV and radio as a political commentator: BBC 2 Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, Sky TV (UK), Television New Zealand, and TV3 (NZ), among others.

Rt Hon Baker was Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office from 7 September 2022 to 5 July 2024.He was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union from June 2017 to 9 July 2018. Steve spent ten years as an engineering officer in the Royal Air Force, serving all over the world. He later worked as a consulting software engineer and manager, representing small and large corporations, including as Chief Architect of Global Financing and Asset Service Platforms at Lehman Brothers between 2006 and 2008. This work, and the financial crash in 2008, gave him an interest in the reform of the financial system. He is a founding member of The Cobden Centre, an educational charity for research into economic and political science. He has also been an associate consultant with the Centre for Social Justice since 2008.

Dr Brash has been one of New Zealand's leading economic and financial policy advisers, and over the years he has provided advice to governments in many parts of the world including Indonesia, Cambodia, the Bahamas, Saudi Arabia, and the Pacific Islands. Before entering Parliament, Don was Governor of the Reserve Bank for almost 14 years. During his tenure running New Zealand's central bank rior to his time as Governor, Don spent five years in Washington working for the World Bank Group, including a year spent on the staff of the Pearson Commission on International Development and two years working for the Bank’s President, Robert McNamara. He returned to New Zealand in 1971 to head up the investment bank Broadbank Corporation. He has been a director of a number of companies, including Westpac Merchant Finance and Cavalier Corporation in the seventies and eighties, and the ANZ Bank (in New Zealand), Huljich Wealth Management, Transpower and Oceania Dairy more recently. He has been chairman of the New Zealand subsidiary of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the largest bank in China and the world, since it began operations in late 2013, a position which he still holds.

Prof Landsburg is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester. He is the author of The Armchair Economist, Fair Play, two textbooks on economics, and over thirty journal articles in mathematics, economics, and philosophy. He writes the popular "Everyday Economics" column in Slate magazine and has written for Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications.

Prof Eleftheriadis studies the philosophy of law and European Union law. He is also a barrister in England and Wales and practises in EU law from Francis Taylor Building in the Temple. His book Legal Rights - which offered arguments against the legal positivist account of law and rights and in favour of a moral account of legal rights based on public reason - was published in 2008. Since then he has written on the theory of human rights, the right to health, the idea of sovereignty, the problem of parliamentary sovereignty as well as several aspects of the constitutional theory of the EU. He is currently at work on a monograph on constitutional theory entitled The Deliberative Constitution. He is a founder member of the Greek political party 'To Potami' (the River) and stood as a candidate in the 2014 European election and the 2015 general election. He is currently the spokesperson on European Affairs and a member of the National Executive.

Nour has extensive experience working in leadership roles in various organizations in Lebanon and abroad. With an M.A in applied economics, Nour combines her academic background and her unique skills and experience in shaping WhyteandPartners' outreach strategy. She currently serves as the firms Chief Marketing Officer.