The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

Robbie Millen

Robbie Millen (Chair) has been literary editor of The Times since 2013 and of The Sunday Times since 2024. Before that he was deputy comment editor of The Times for more than a decade and assistant editor of The Spectator. He has been a judge for the Desmond Elliott Prize and The Orwell Prize for Political Writing

Pratinav Anil

Pratinav Anil teaches history at Oxford and reviews frequently for the Times and the Guardian. He is the author of two bleak assessments of postcolonial Indian history, one of which was picked by the Financial Times in its Best Books of 2023. Gandhi's Tomb is forthcoming from Allen Lane.

Inaya Folarin Iman

Inaya Folarin Iman is a journalist and broadcaster. She has written columns, features, and book reviews for a range of publications, including The Telegraph, Daily Mail, and The Critic. A regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze, she frequently contributes to leading political and cultural programmes across radio and television. Inaya is the Founder and Director of The Equiano Project, a forum dedicated to promoting freedom of speech and open dialogue on issues of race, identity, and culture. She also created and hosted The Discussion, a weekly show on GB News exploring ideas, culture, and politics. Additionally, she serves as the Youth Engagement Trustee for the National Portrait Gallery.

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a biographer, cultural historian and novelist.  Her most recent book is The Scapegoat: the Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham which has been described as 'fabulous' (The Guardian), 'dazzling' (Wall Street Journal) and 'stunningly good' (The Sunday Times). Her previous books include The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize (now the Baillie Gifford Prize) in 2013, as well as the Duff Cooper Prize and the Costa Biography of the Year Award.   She is a widely respected critic, and has judged a number of literary prizes: in 2020 she was chair of the judges of the International Booker Prize.

Rachel Lloyd

Rachel Lloyd is Deputy Culture Editor at The Economist. She is also co-host of the “Always Take Notes” podcast as well as the co-editor of “Always Take Notes: Advice From Some Of The World’s Greatest Writers” (2023). In 2021 she was nominated for Young Journalist of the Year by the Society of Editors. Before joining The Economist in 2015, she worked at literary agencies in London and New York. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Magdalen College, Oxford, and a Diploma in Script Development from the National Film and Television School.

Peter Parker

Peter Parker is the author of two books about the First World War, The Old Lie and The Last Veteran; biographies of J.R. Ackerley and Christopher Isherwood; Housman Country; and A Little Book of Latin for Gardeners. Some Men in London, his two-volume anthology of queer life in the capital from 1945 to 1967, was the Times and Sunday Times History Book of the Year in 2024. He edited (and wrote much of) A Reader’s Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel and A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, and is an advisory editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He has written about people, books, art, architecture and gardening for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines.