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Campbell Robb

Campbell is the CEO of Nacro, a national social justice charity with more than 50 years' experience of changing lives, building stronger communities and reducing crime.

Carmen Sumadiwiria

Carmen Sumadiwiria is a Specialist Clinical Nurse and is Director of Diversity at My Death, My Decision.

Caroline Casey

Caroline Casey is an award-winning social entrepreneur and founder of The Valuable 500, a global movement putting disability on the business leadership agenda.

Catherine McBride

Catherine McBride is an economist writing frequently on agriculture policy and a Fellow of the Centre for Brexit Policy.

Catherine McKinnell MP

Catherine McKinnell is a British Labour Party politician who has represented Newcastle upon Tyne North as Member of Parliament since 2010. Born on 8 June 1976, she has built her parliamentary career around education and standards in public services. Between 2024 and 2025, McKinnell served as Minister of State for School Standards, a role in which she was responsible for education policy and raising achievement across England's schools.

Throughout her time in Parliament, McKinnell has established herself as a voice on matters affecting her North East constituency and broader policy debates around education reform and public sector delivery. Her ministerial experience in the education brief has given her particular insight into the challenges facing Britain's school system and the policy levers available to government. She now contributes political and policy commentary to Comment Central, bringing her parliamentary expertise and ministerial experience to the site's analysis of current affairs.

Celestine Cheong

Celestine Cheong is Head of External Communications at the Atomic Energy Authority

Charles Amos

Charles Amos is a trainee accountant and Human Respect Fellow for the Foundation for Harmony and Prosperity. He writes The Musing Individualists Substack in his spare time

Charles Seaford

Charles Seaford is a senior fellow at think tank Demos, and a consultant to the World Future Council. He was formerly Head of the Centre for Wellbeing, an advisor at the Sustainable Development Commission and an organisational change consultant. He co-founded Prospect magazine and has an MBA from London Business School. As well as numerous papers for the New Economics Foundation, his most recent publications include: Is Wellbeing a useful concept for progressives? (Centre for Wellbeing in Public Policy, University of Sheffield, 2015), and Changes to investment law that advance sustainable prosperity (CUSP, 2019).

Charlotte Kude

Charlotte is the Secretary-General of the International Young Democrat Union. Until 2016 she served as Treasurer of the European Young Conservatives, a youth alliance promoting free markets and free people in Europe. Born in Munich, Charlotte grew up in South Africa and Australia and attended high school in the suburbs of Paris. She speaks fluent English, French, German and Spanish.