Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is an award-winning journalist who has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Times Magazine, Newsweek among others. For 17 years she has been a weekly columnist for the Independent newspaper. In 2002 she won the George Orwell prize for political journalism and the Emma Award for Journalism in 2004. She is also a radio and television broadcaster, and author of ‘The Settler’s Cookbook: A Memoir of Migration, Love and Food’ and ‘Who Do We Think We Are? Imagining the New Britain’. From 1996 to 2001 she served as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research and is Vice President at the United Nations Association.

She is an Honorary Fellow at Liverpool John Moores University, the Open University, Oxford Brooke University and Honorary Visiting Professor at Cardiff and Lincoln Universities. She is a part time professor of journalism at Middlesex University and governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company.