Intelligence Squared 2026
The full speaker lineup for Intelligence Squared 2026 — 23 announced speakers.
Intelligence Squared 2026: 7 speakers across 7 talks tracked on Mezzo — including Mustafa Suleyman, Elif Shafak, and Tina Brown CBE.
Speaker Lineup
23 speakersThe full announced lineup for Intelligence Squared 2026. Speakers without a full profile are shown as cards — is one of them you?
Adam Rutherford
Geneticist / broadcaster
Andrew Graham-Dixon
Art historian
Carlo Rovelli
Physicist / author
Gillian Tett
Journalist, Financial Times
Jeremy Hunt
Politician
Jim Al-Khalili
Physicist / broadcaster
Lyse Doucet
Chief International Correspondent, BBC
Marina Hyde
Columnist, The Guardian
Martin Wolf
Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
Michael Gove
Editor, The Spectator
Naomi Alderman
Author
Peter Frankopan
Historian
Philip Pullman
Author
Tim Marshall
Geopolitics author
Tim Spector
Professor of Epidemiology
Zadie Smith
Author
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