Angela Gheorghiu is a prominent operatic soprano. Since her professional debut in 1990, she has sung leading roles at the New York Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera, La Scala Milan, and many other major opera houses in Europe and the United States. She has a substantial discography primarily with EMI Classics and Decca.

Camila Batmanghelidjh is a British psychotherapist and social entrepreneur whose work focuses on children marginalized by society. She is the founder and director of Kids Company. This registered charity supports children with severe behavioural, emotional and social difficulties resulting from significant levels of trauma and neglect, which usually means the lack of even one functioning parent. Kids Company aims to restore their trust and provide an environment in which they can begin the healing process, using a variety of approaches such as psychotherapy, counselling, education, arts, sports, hot meals and various other practical interventions.

Charlotte Ritchie is a JAGS alumna and member of All Angels, a British classical and pop group formed in 2005, consisting of Charlotte Ritchie, Melanie Nakhla, Laura Wright, and Daisy Chute. The group's style is classical crossover music, with a repertoire spanning classical, choral, opera and pop including Franz Schubert's Ellens dritter Gesang, Agnus Dei and the Intermezzo from Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, plus pop songs such as Robbie Williams' Angels, Fleetwood Mac's Songbird and Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U. They have recorded two albums to date.

Jenny Éclair is a comedienne, actress and novelist, working in the United Kingdom. She appeared in the early 1990s comedy series Packet of Three, as well as the follow-up series Packing Them In. In 1995 she became the first female winner of the Edinburgh Festival's Perrier Comedy Award. On 18 March 2007, she was voted 39th on Channel Four's countdown of the greatest ever stand-up comedians. Ms Éclair appeared at Derby Playhouse in The Killing of Sister George in September and October 2008. She continues with her ‘Because I forgot to get a pension’ tour in 2009, as well as various other stand up shows.

Jeremy James Taylor founded The National Youth Music Theatre in 1976 and led it as Artistic Director for twenty-seven years till 2003. He has written over thirty pieces for the company, directed over forty, and has won seven Fringe First awards at the Edinburgh Festival. Jeremy started his career at The National Theatre as actor and director. He was Associate Director at The Young Vic from 1975-8 before directing freelance for the English National Opera and Glyndebourne, amongst many others. He has directed all over the world, including shows in Sydney, Hong Kong, Toronto and on Broadway, and has worked on the casting of many films, including Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow and most recently Sweeney Todd.

Lady Weidenfeld (Annabelle Whitestone), is an English former concert manager and promoter for classical music impresarios including Ingpen & Williams, Ibbs and Tillett, Wilfrid Van Wyck, and Conciertos Daniel. Artur Rubinstein credited Whitestone with assisting the careers of two of his protégés, François-René Duchâble and Janina Fialkowska, as well as introducing him to the chamber music of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. Lady Weidenfeld convened Remembering Rubinstein, a day of talks and concerts at the Royal Academy of Music on 22 January 2008, to honor the pianist "who once sold as many records as rock stars and was as much at ease in the White House as he was with his chums Picasso and Charlie Chaplin."

Lord Lester of Herne Hill, QC is a British politician and member of the House of Lords, and a member of the Liberal Democrats. He was created Baron Lester of Herne Hill in the London Borough of Southwark in 1993. As a barrister he works out of Blackstone Chambers. On 29 June 2007, Lord Lester was appointed by in-coming Prime Minister Gordon Brown as a special advisor on constitutional reform to the Secretary of State for Justice. Lord Lester is a widely acclaimed human rights lawyer in the European human rights system where he has represented individuals and states.

Lord McColl of Dulwich, CBE a British surgeon, professor, politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords. Lord McColl was made a Life Peer for his work for disabled people in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1989. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister John Major from 1994-97. Since 1997, he has been a Shadow Minister for Health. He is also a trustee and surgeon to the international charity Mercy Ships. He is a Fellow of King's College London, where he continues to teach on the Guy's Campus. Recently, Lord McColl has become an advocate to stop the global crime of human trafficking.

Richard Stilgoe OBE is a British songwriter, lyricist and musician. He is noted for clever wordplay as well as for his music. As well as being a comic of no small gift Stilgoe is a serious musician, writing lyrics for Starlight Express and collaborating with Charles Hart on the lyrics to The Phantom of the Opera and writing two musicals for schools, Bodywork and Brilliant the Dinosaur, as well as working on lyrics and music for Cats. Stilgoe gave away all his royalties for his work as lyricist on Starlight Express to a village in India. He has appeared on the Royal Variety Performance and presented the Schools Proms for over 20 years, and has toured extensively both solo and with Peter Skellern. Stilgoe has two Tony nominations, three Monte Carlo Prizes, a Prix Italia, an honorary doctorate and an OBE to his name.

Sally Hawkins is a British actress and JAGS alumna best known for her performances as Susan in the Academy award-nominated Mike Leigh production Vera Drake (2004), as Sue Trinder in the BBC's Fingersmith (2005) and for her Silver Bear winning performance as Poppy in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky (2008). In 2008, Hawkins won the Golden Globe for ‘Best Actress’ and the Silver Bear ‘Best Actress’ award for her role as Poppy in Happy-Go-Lucky. At the 2007 Monte-Carlo TV Festival, she won the ‘Golden Nymph’ award in the ‘Best Performance by an Actress’ category for her role as Anne Elliot in Persuasion.

Sir David Willcocks is a renowned British choral conductor, organist, and composer. From 1957 to 1974 he held the post for which he is probably best-known, Director of Music at King's College, Cambridge. In addition, he served as the organist of Cambridge University, conductor of the Cambridge University Music Society, and as University Lecturer. He made numerous recordings with the college choir; the choir toured extensively, giving concerts world-wide, as well as garnering further acclaim internationally through television and radio appearances. Under the baton of Willcocks, CUMS performed Benjamin Britten's War Requiem in 1963 at Perugia, Milan, La Scala, and in Venice. The choir subsequently performed the work in Japan, Hong Kong, Portugal, and the Netherlands. In 1960, he also became the musical director of the Bach Choir in London and from 1974 to 1984 he was Director of the Royal College of Music in London.

Sola Akingbola is the drummer of Jamiroquai, a Grammy Award-winning English acid jazz/funk/soul band. Jamiroquai was initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement. Sola has maintained a spiritual energy to the hypnotic music of Jamiroquai. During the last ten years, since joining at the beginning of the 'Space Cowboy Tour' in 1995, he has been involved with three unforgettable studio albums & the eagerly anticipated new album: 'Dynamite'. Sola also has his own website www.solaakingbola.com