Gulrü Necipoglu is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She is the editor of Muqarnas: An Annual of Islamic Visual Culture, and author of Architecture, Ceremonial and Power (1991) and The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (1995).
Joseph Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books including The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities (2002) and The Idea of a Town (1988).
Ziauddin Sardar is a writer, broadcaster and cultural critic. The author and editor of numerous books, he is Visiting Professor of Postcolonial Studies at The City University, London, and contributes regularly to the New Statesman.
Jelto Drenth is a sexologist at the Rutgers Foundation in Groningen, The Netherlands
Michael Paris is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Historical and Critical Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. His most recent book is The First World War and Popular Cinema (1999).
Barry Reay is Professor of History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His books include Popular Cultures in England, 1550-1750 (1998).
Alan Powers is Reader in Architecture and Cultural History at the University of Greenwich. He is the author of several monographs on architects, including Serge Chermayeff (2001), and of the illustrated surveys The Twentieth Century House in Britain (2004) and Modern: the Modern Movement in Britain (2005).
Vibhuti Sachdev is an architect, a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex and the author of Indian Architectural Theory (1998)
Giles Tillotson is Senior Lecturer at SOAS, University of London, and the author of many books, including Mughal India (1990).
Gillian Darley is the author of many books, including John Soane: An Accidental Romantic (1999). She appears regularly on television and contributes to the Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement.