Andy Rose is back for round 2! (find part 1 on Ep. 16: Andy Rose: from pushing shopping trolleys to buying a Porsche, & losing it to pursue his true passion at 43)

Matthew Lesh is the Head of Public Policy at the IEA.

He regularly appears across television and radio, including the BBC, Sky News and GB News, and has been published in the Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian.

He has written about the role of the business and the state, barriers to innovation, digital regulation and free speech, political divides, housing, and market environmentalism.

Susie is a senior barista at an independent coffee shop in London

Bruce Cameron is a principal at Piper Alderman with broad experience in commercial law. His expertise encompasses mergers and acquisitions, the privatisation of government business, private and public fund-raising, venture and development capital finance, joint ventures, company applications and boardroom disputes.

"I began my career as an analyst in New York then worked in Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia in senior executive and leadership roles with Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, HSBC and JBWere. As Scale Investors CEO, I facilitated patient capital investment into exceptional Australian early-stage businesses. My executive career has been quite the journey, super proud to have raised two amazing, now adult, daughters." - Ariane Barker

Tony Burgess is Chairman of Flagstaff Partners, an independent corporate finance advisory firm.

Mr Burgess has over 40 years of experience in corporate finance in Melbourne, London and New York and was previously Global Co-Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for Deutsche Bank AG, based in London.

Mr Burgess holds an MBA (Distinction) from Harvard Business School (1985) and a Bachelor of Commerce (First Class Honours) from the University of Melbourne (1981). He is a Director of the listed investment company, Diversified United Investment Limited, a Director of Melbourne Business School Limited, Chairman of the Melbourne Foundation for Business and Economics, a Governor of The Ian Potter Foundation and a Director of the Board of Management of the Melbourne Theatre Company.

Paul is the author of eleven books, from his path-breaking 2005 book on the rise of China, Thunder From the Silent Zone: Rethinking China, to his latest book of love poetry, The Three Graces: Companionship, Discretion, Passion (2022). He has featured on both radio and television for many years as a respected commentator on international affairs. He has been a frequent and authoritative contributor to major print media for twenty-five years. He is a speaker on topics ranging from espionage and national security to the implications of the rise in Chinese power, religion in a secular age, the nature of Western civilisation and educating young minds for the 21st century world.

Varad Mukhedkar is a 20 year old uni student from Perth, Western Australia

Christopher Snowdon is the head of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs. His research focuses on social freedoms, prohibition and policy-based evidence. He is a regular columnist for EA magazine and an occasional contributor to Spiked, The Critic and the Telegraph. He often appears on TV and radio discussing social and economic issues.

He blogs at Velvet Glove, Iron Fist.