Margaret Sentamu is a freelance Leadership Development consultant with a focus on diversity. She has worked for a number of years in the private, public and third sector which included a period as Senior Selection Secretary, overseeing the team responsible for the recruitment of trainee clergy for the Church of England.  Margaret is a Non-executive...

Christina Rees is a writer, broadcaster and communications consultant. She is also a lay minister and part-time school chaplain. Christina was a member of the General Synod of the Church of England for 25 years, and a founder member of the Archbishops’ Council, the body that advises the Archbishops of Canterbury and York on matters...

Tom Travers trained as an accountant, working in the private sector in the profession and industry before moving to CDC Group. He was posted to West Papua, Indonesia as finance director of a pioneering agricultural development, then worked on feasibility studies and monitoring and appraisal of investments mainly in Central Africa and Indonesia. Tom became...

  Jane B Namurye holds a MA in Peace Studies and International Relations from the Catholic University of East Africa and a BA in Community Development and Business Administration from Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya. Jane is herself one of the Daughters of Li Tim Oi. Jane worked as a journalist with the Sudan Radio...

The Very Revd Professor Martyn Percy is the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, one of University of Oxford's largest colleges, as well as being Dean of the Cathedral Church of the Diocese of Oxford. He writes and teaches on modern ecclesiology, and as well as being a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at...

The Revd Norma Rao was born and grew up in China. She became a Christian after the Cultural Revolution. After training in a Theological college, she was ordained as a deacon in her local church in the North East of China. In the 1990s Norma studied and trained in England and was ordained in Sheffield...

Revd Lucy Thirtle has been in ordained parish ministry in the Church of England for 20 years, serving in both urban and rural parishes in Winchester diocese until moving to Oxford diocese in 2015.  As one of the second wave of ordained women, she has always been grateful for those who campaigned and faced bitter...