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Wednesday 9 July 2008

Speakers for the motion:

Reuel Marc Gerecht: Resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former Middle Eastern specialist with the CIA. Author of Know Thine Enemy: A Spy's Journey into Revolutionary Iran and The Islamic Paradox: Shiite Clerics, Sunni Fundamentalists, and the Coming of Arab Democracy.

Emanuele Ottolenghi: Political scientist and Executive Director of the Transatlantic Institute.

Bruno Tertrais: Dr. Tertrais graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris in 1984. Between 1990 and 1993, he was the Director of the Civilian Affairs Committee, NATO Assembly, Brussels. He is now a Senior Research Fellow at the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique (FRS), as well as an Associate Researcher at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI). He was appointed a member of the French presidential commission on the White Paper on Defence and Security in August 2007, and a member of the French ministerial commission on the White Paper on Foreign and European policy in October 2007.

Speakers against the motion:

Sir Richard Dalton: British Ambassador to Iran 2002-2006, previously Ambassador to Libya and Consul General in Jerusalem.

Professor Ali Ansari: Professor of Iranian History at the University of St Andrews and Associate Fellow of Chatham House. His books include Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and The Roots of Mistrust and Iran, Islam & Democracy - The Politics of Managing Change.

Simon Jenkins: Journalist and author. He writes a column twice weekly for the Guardian and weekly for the Sunday Times, as well as broadcasting for the BBC. Previously he wrote columns for the Times and the London Evening Standard, both of which newspaper he edited. His career began on Country Life magazine and continued on the Times Educational Supplement, the Economist (political editor) and the Sunday Times (books editor). He served on the board of British Rail and London Transport in the 1980s and was deputy chairman of English Heritage and a Millennium Commissioner. He was Journalist of the Year in 1988 and Columnist of the Year in 1993. His books include works on London architecture, the press and politics and, more recently, England's Thousand Best Churches (1999) and Thousand Best Houses (2003).

The debate will be chaired by Richard Lindley. Richard Lindley produced TV commercials before becoming a television journalist at ITN. There he reported round the world, from Cape Horn to Alaska, from Tristan da Cunha to Khathmandu. He covered wars in the Middle East, in Africa, and in Asia. Moving from news to current affairs he joined BBC Panorama - where he was the first western television journalist to interview Iraq's Saddam Hussein. In 1989, after a brief spell as a television regulator, he returned to reporting and presenting, first for ITV's This Week programme, and then again at ITN. There he contributed special reports to the News at Ten until in 1999 the programme was cancelled. He now writes about television journalism.

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