Professor Carl Gombrich is the Academic Lead and Director of Teaching & Learning at London Interdisciplinary School. He is interested in interdisciplinarity, liberal arts and sciences and how these ideas about undergraduate education relate to contemporary work and ideas of expertise. Carl has degrees in Maths, Physics and Philosophy and was a professional opera singer and the Royal Opera House scholar before moving into higher education. leadership.​

Napoleon Katsos is a professor in Experimental Linguistics at the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD in linguistics from Cambridge and his main research focus is in the area of semantics and pragmatics, and in language learning by monolingual and bilingual children and adults. He is also interested in similarities and differences between neurotypical, and neurodiverse people especially as regards language and cognition. 

Professor Victoria Murphy is the Director of the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in Second Language Education from McGill University in Canada. Her research focuses on the cognitive and social variables that affect second language development, with special foci on child learning, bilingualism, and contexts involving English as an Additional Language (EAL).

Fernando M. Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice of International Education and Director of the Global Education Innovation Initiative and of the International Education Policy Masters Program at Harvard University. As a member of UNESCOs Commission on the Futures of Education, he is interested in advancing understanding of the ways schools can empower students to participate civically and economically, and to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. ​