James Carleton Paget was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.In 1993 he became a Research Fellow at Peterhouse, and in 1995, a Lecturer in the New Testament at Cambridge University, where he has been ever since. He has published on subjects related to New Testament, early church history, and ancient Judaism, as well as on Albert Schweitzer. He co-authored (with Michael J. Thate) Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action: A Life in Parts

Tabitha Mwangi is Programme Director at the Mastercard Foundation Program. She joined the University of Cambridge in 2021 as the Programme Manager of Cambridge-Africa. Prior to that she was Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Anglia Ruskin University, UK (2017-2020). Tabitha started her higher education at the University of Nairobi. She worked as a research scientist for 10 years at the Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Program in Kilifi.

Gisella Marinuzzi (Associate Director) is an international lawyer proficient in five languages. A classically-trained pianist, her legal career spans practice in her native Italy as well as on Wall Street, and more recently in the UK. In addition to developing graduate study groups in Law and Politics, Gisella's expertise extends to formulating and implementing strategies to elevate animal welfare protection as a critical consideration in governmental policy-making.

Nicholas Kaye is Headmaster of Sussex House School, Chelsea. He read English at Cambridge and is a conductor, writer and lecturer on French music, specialising in revivals of forgotten settings of the Requiem Mass by French composers. He is a contributor to The New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He regularly visits Addis Ababa as a trustee of the Asra Harawiat School, has lectured on Victorian architecture and conducted tours of Tintoretto’s paintings in Venice.

Benedict Rattigan (Director) is a writer and philosopher. He is best known for developing the theory of dynamic symmetry, which proposes that complex systems - ranging from subatomic particles to ecosystems and human societies - thrive by balancing order and chaos at what he calls the “edge of chaos”. Rattigan’s work has inspired conferences at the British Museum and Balliol College, an academic journal, and a book (The Language of Symmetry, Routledge) written by a team of Oxford academics.