Oliver Preston's cartoons have been published in The Times, The Guardian, The Beano, Country Life, Punch Magazine and The Field Magazine. His cartoons are published as greeting cards and he has illustrated, and produced collections of his cartoons in 21 books. He is a director of publishers, Beverston Press Limited. He has held one man exhibitions at the Fine Art Society (1999) and The Mall Galleries (2014, 2016). A trustee since 1992, he has been Chair of the Cartoon Art Trust since 2001. He set up the Cartoon Art Trust Awards in 1995. Oliver is a member of The British Cartoonists’ Association.

Yomi Ayeni is an award winning Transmedia creator, producer, filmmaker, and storyteller, and lectures in Interactive Storytelling at the Royal College of Arts. Yomi’s practice involves mapping stories to everyday life, as a way of creating experiences that nudge the audience closer to the heart of a narrative. In 2002 he won the “Best Use of New Media” Award for Global E-Missions, a show he developed for ITV, and in 2018 developed transmedia project Clockwork Watch, including a graphic novel, immersive events, and a co-created story.

Nicola Jennings originally trained as a theatre designer and started her career designing for opera. She began caricaturing for the London Daily News in 1987, went on to work for The Observer and since 1991 has been drawing cartoons and caricatures for The Guardian. She has produced animated cartoons for Channel 4's A Week in Politics and drawn live on BBC2's Midnight Hour. She became Chair of The British Cartoonists' Association in August 2022.

Chris Gilbert is a Chartered Management Accountant with qualifications in Charity Finance and Accounting. He is Director of Finance and Resources at the London Library and was previously chief financial officer at London Transport Museum where he helped to take the museum into charitable status. Chris is passionate about the importance of the heritage, arts and culture sectors, and spent many years as a Trustee and Treasurer of the Association for Cultural Enterprises. He also sits on the Board of the Bow Street Police Museum. Chris has a lifelong love of cartoons and comic art.

Steve Bell's cartoons have been published all over the world; he has won numerous awards including Cartoon Art Trust Awards for Political and Strip cartooning, the What the Papers Say Cartoonist of the Year, the XXI Premio Satira Politica (Grafica estera) Forte Dei Marmi, The Political Cartoon Society Cartoon of the Year Award, the British Press Awards Cartoonist of the Year and the Channel 4 Political Humour Award. His most memorable images include John Major with his underpants worn outside his trousers, of Tony Blair with Margaret Thatcher's rogue eyeball, and of George W Bush as a chimpanzee.

Colie Spink is Managing Partner, Europe for A&M Capital Europe (AMCE), a middle-market private equity investment firm. Prior to launching AMCE in 2017, Colie was a Managing Director and head of the European private equity performance improvement practice for Alvarez & Marsal, a global operationally-oriented consulting firm. Colie also serves as a Director of Bolle Brands, and as UK Regional Co-Chair for the University of Virginia’s merit-based Jefferson Scholarship program. A US citizen, Colie has lived in the UK since 1995, and joined the Cartoon Museum board in 2014.

Dan Franklin has worked in publishing since 1970, beginning at Peter Owen Ltd, then moving to the Harvill Press, then Collins, then Heinemann, where he was Editorial Director for non-fiction. He then became Publishing Director of Secker & Warburg, where he published Roddy Doyle, Bill Bryson and Louis de Bernieres. In 1993 he was appointed Publishing Director of Jonathan Cape. Dan started, and still runs, the graphic novel list at Cape, publishing Posy Simmonds, Raymond Briggs, and Bryan Talbot, amongst others. In 2019 he was awarded an honorary Fellowship at the Royal Society of Literature.

Alexander Williams is a cartoonist and animator whose film credits include Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, The Lion King, The Iron Giant, the last three Harry Potter films, and The Chronicles of Narnia. He has worked for many Studios including Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, Warner Bros, and Sony. Alex is Head of Animation at Escape Studios in London and is the founder of the online animation school www.animationapprentice.org. Alex also draws the weekly cartoon strip Queen's Counsel which has appeared in the law pages of The London Times since 1993 and has published many books.

Hannah Berry is a comics creator, cartoonist, writer, campaigner and author of three highly acclaimed and occasionally award-winning graphic novels published by Jonathan Cape: Livestock, Adamtine and Britten & Brülightly. She has contributed to numerous publications worldwide as well as regular cartoons for New Statesman and Prospect Magazine, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was UK Comics Laureate 2019-21.

Julian Bower is a chartered accountant who started his career as a partner in Binder Hamlyn & Co., and has subsequently been a director of two merchant banks. As well as a spell of public service he has spent much of his career assisting smaller and medium sized organisations, usually as an involved non-executive director.

Karen Brayshaw is Special Collections Librarian and Manager of Special Collections and Archives at the University of Kent, which includes the British Cartoon Archive. Her role at the university is to lead and develop the Special Collections and Archives team and the collections, as well as raising funds to support the work that they do. She has worked closely with colleagues to successfully apply for donations and grants that enabled them to catalogue, digitise, and purchase collections and equipment as well as develop newly funded research projects.