Professor Stephen J Toope OC, LL.D. is 346th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, the first non-UK national to hold the post. He was Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, and President, the University of British Columbia. A former Dean of Law, McGill University, Toope was also Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.

Professor Toope publishes in global journals on human rights, international dispute resolution, international environmental law, the use of force, and international legal theory, and has lectured at universities around the world.

His current book project with Professor Jutta Brunnée explores mechanisms and processes fostering stability and change in international law.

Professor Caroline Bassett is Professor of Digital Humanities in the Faculty of English, Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH), and a Fellow of Corpus Christi. She researches, teaches and writes widely around digital media, computational humanities, AI and the transformation of knowledge cultures, technology and social power, science fiction, utopian thinking, critical theories of the digital, and gender, technology and the political. Her publications include the ‘Arc and the Machine’, on narrative and new media, ‘Furious’, a co-authored monograph on feminism, gender and digital worlds. Her latest monograph ‘Anti-Computing’, which explores histories of resistance to computerized cultures, has just been published by Manchester University Press. 

Dr Siddharth Soni is the Isaac Newton Trust Research Fellow at Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) and an Associate Fellow at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. Siddharth wrote his PhD thesis at Cambridge on the short story form in India. He is also the member of the University of Cambridge Open Research Steering Committee.