Lisbet Rausing

Lisbet Rausing is an historian and research associate of Imperial College. She was educated at UC Berkeley and Harvard, where she also taught for eight years. She has written two academic monographs as well as numerous scholarly articles. She serves on various boards and committees, for example at Harvard Board of Overseers, and Yad Hanadiv. She holds honorary doctorates from SOAS, Uppsala University, and Imperial College, and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society.

Peter Baldwin

Peter Baldwin is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was educated at Yale and Harvard. He is the author of The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1877-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1990), Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (University of California Press and Milbank Foundation, 2005), and editor of Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historians' Debate (Beacon Press, 1990). An examination of the current state of the US-Europe divide is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in the fall of 2009: The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe are Alike.