- Professor Danielle Allen
- Mr Neal Ascherson
- Professor Atta-ur-Rahman
- Professor John Barrell
- Professor G W Benjamin CBE
- The Rt Hon Lord Clarke of Stone Cum Ebony
- Professor Michael Cook
- Miss Caroline Elam
- Professor John Ellis CBE
- Sir John Eliot Gardiner
- Professor Dame Anne Glover
- Sir Nicholas Goodison
- The Rt Rev and Rt Hon the Lord Habgood
- Dr Hermann Hauser CBE
- Lord King of Lothbury
- Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd
- The Rt Hon Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers KG
- Professor Dusa McDuff
- Ms Frances Morris
- Professor C R Rao
- The Rt Hon the Lord Rees of Ludlow
- Lord Sainsbury of Turville
- Professor Leslie Valiant
- Professor Herman Waldmann
- Ms Judith Weir CBE