Geoff Blanning is a former Investment Manager and Member of the Group Management Committee at Schroders Plc, author of “Put the tools away now, please” (2021) and Co-Producer of “Ex Nihilo: The Truth About Money”, a Cobden Centre documentary film, soon to be released, which exposes the fundamental flaws at the heart of our monetary system.

Max Rangeley is Manager of The Cobden Centre and has served on the boards of other leading think tanks in London and Brussels. He founded an award-winning microchip company and has organised and moderated high level technology events, such as the artificial intelligence roundtable discussions in the European Parliament.

Toby Baxendale is an entrepreneur/investor who co-founded the Cobden Centre with Steve Baker MP around the time of the Great Financial Crisis to warn of the dangers of irresponsible, dangerous and at times dishonest monetary policy that still bedevils us today. He believes fixing the monetary system and providing a stable financial base, will in turn, go a long way, to fix many of the UK’s social and economic problems.

Dr Eamonn Butler is Director and co-founder of Britain’s leading free-market policy think tank, the Adam Smith Institute, and a leading author and broadcaster on economics and social issues.

Dr Tim Evans is Professor of Business and Political Economy at Middlesex University London and has been ranked by City AM as one of the UK’s ‘Top 75’ economic policy thinkers.

Dominic Frisby is a writer from London, behind the popular Substack The Flying Frisby. His books include: Life After the State: Why We Don’t Need Government, Bitcoin: the Future of Money? and Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future.

Mark Littlewood is Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and sits on the Board of Big Brother Watch, a non-profit organisation fighting for the protection of privacy and civil liberties in the UK. Mark is recognised as powerful, engaging and articulate spokesman for free markets and is a regular guest on flagship political programmes such as BBC Question Time.

Lord Hannan of Kingsclere is an author and columnist, and Co-Trustee of The Cobden Centre. He serves on the UK Board of Trade and is a Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party responsible for its international relations. He was a Conservative MEP for 21 years and wrote the New York Times bestseller ‘Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World’.

Abdallah Guezour has 27 years investment experience in Emerging Markets, Currencies and Commodities. Over this time period, he has gained expertise in analysing the interplay between money supply, financial liquidity, asset prices and the real economy.

Kerry Halferty Hardy is a lecturer and consultant on innovation and entrepreneurship and adviser to international companies and NGOs. She is a board member of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Institute for Economic Studies Europe and the American Club of Paris and a voting member of the American Institute for Economic Research.

Daniel Lacalle, PhD, economist and fund manager, is author of the bestselling books ‘Freedom or Equality’ (2020), ‘Escape from the Central Bank Trap’ (2017) and others. He is Professor of Global Economy at IE Business School in Madrid and was ranked as one of the top twenty most influential economists in the world in 2016 and 2017.

Colin Lloyd has been following the ebb and flow of financial markets for more than 35 years. He has worked for brokers and asset managers in commodities, money markets, capital markets, equities and foreign exchange.

Dominique Lazanski is a digital policy and strategy consultant and owner and director of her own company, Last Press Label. She has worked on cybersecurity policy and internet governance co-ordination with the UN, OECD, WTO and others, and was a member of the UK’s Open Data User Group in the Cabinet Office from 2012-14 and the Tax Transparency Board in HMRC in 2013.