- Mr Neal Ascherson
- Professor Atta-ur-Rahman
- Professor John Barrell
- Professor George Benjamin
- Sir Adrian Cadbury
- The Right Honourable Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony
- Miss Caroline Elam
- Professor John Ellis
- Sir Nicholas Goodison
- The Rt Rev Lord Habgood
- Dr Hermann Hauser
- Professor Lisa Jardine
- Professor Mervyn King
- Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd
- Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers
- Professor C R Rao
- Lord Rees of Ludlow
- Baron Sainsbury of Turville
- Professor Leslie G. Valiant
- Professor Herman Waldmann
- Ms Judith Weir
- Sir David Willcocks