The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

Stephanie Flanders

Stephanie Flanders (Chair) is Chief Market Strategist in the UK and Europe for J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Stephanie was previously the Economics Editor at the BBC, covering numerous television and radio programmes, including her own radio show, ‘Stephanomics’, named after her influential blog. Prior to this she was Economics Editor for Newsnight. Before 2002, Flanders worked as a reporter at the New York Times, a speechwriter and senior advisor to US Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers, a Financial Times leader-writer and columnist, and an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the London Business School. She has degrees from Balliol College, Oxford and Harvard University.

Philip Ball

Philip Ball is a freelance science writer. He worked previously at Nature for over 20 years, first as an editor for physical sciences (for which his brief extended from biochemistry to quantum physics and materials science) and then as a Consultant Editor. His writings on science for the popular press have covered topical issues ranging from cosmology to the future of molecular biology. Philip is the author of several popular books on science, including works on the nature of water, pattern formation in the natural world, colour in art, and the science of social and political philosophy. He has written widely on the interactions between art and science, and has delivered lectures to scientific and general audiences at venues ranging from the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) to the NASA Ames Research Center and the London School of Economics. Philip has a BA in Chemistry from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Physics from the University of Bristol.

Jonathan Derbyshire

Jonathan Derbyshire is executive comment editor of the Financial Times. He was previously managing editor of Prospect and before that culture editor of the New Statesman. His essays and reviews have appeared in a number of other publications, including the Guardian, Literary Review and the Times Literary Supplement. He was a lecturer in philosophy in a previous life.

Sophie Ratcliffe

Sophie Ratcliffe is an academic, writer, and literary critic. She teaches English at the University of Oxford, where she is an Associate Professor and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. She has published widely in the area of nineteenth and twentieth century literature, with works ranging from her 2008 book about reading and emotion, On Sympathy (Oxford University Press), to her authorised edition of P. G. Wodehouse’s letters (Hutchinson and Norton, 2011). She has twenty years of experience as a reviewer for The Times, Telegraph, New Statesman, Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement, and is currently working on two new books.

Rohan Silva

Rohan Silva is co-founder of Second Home, a social enterprise that supports creativity and innovation in cities around the world. Rohan was previously Senior Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister, where he worked across all areas of policy, but was particularly passionate about enterprise, innovation and technology. He was responsible for developing key policies to improve the environment for enterprise in the UK, such as the Entrepreneur Visa, Entrepreneur Relief, angel investment tax breaks, and the Government's Open Data agenda. Rohan is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and a World Economic Forum ‘Young Global Leader’.