Profile Creators & Guests

Mark Coles is a music presenter, broadcaster, journalist, and host of the Profile podcast.

Helen Grady is an editor at BBC Audio North and co-host of the Profile podcast.

Sarah Shebbeare is an audio producer. Currently, she makes radio documentaries and podcasts for the BBC.

Rishi Sunak is a politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Feargal Sharkey is a singer.

Esther Rantzen is an English journalist and television presenter.

Marine Le Pen is a lawyer and politician.

Mark Carney is an economist and banker, he is Vice Chairman and Head of Impact Investing at Brookfield Asset Management as of October 2020.

Mark Drakeford is a politician.

Catherine Corless is a historian.

Mary Louise McDonald is an Irish Sinn Féin politician serving as Leader of the Opposition in Ireland since 2020 and has served as the President of Sinn Féin since 2018.

Matteo Renzi is a politician.

Katharine Birbalsingh is an education reformer, headteacher, and Founder & Headmistress of Michaela Community School.

Eliot Higgins is a writer.

Natalie Louise Bennett, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (born 10 February 1966), is an Australian-British politician and journalist who was the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. Bennett was given a peerage in Theresa May's 2019 resignation honours.Born and raised in Australia, she began her career as a journalist with regional newspapers in New South Wales before leaving in 1995 for Thailand, where she worked for Australian Volunteers International and the Bangkok Post newspaper over the next four years. Since settling in Britain in 1999 she has contributed to The Guardian, The Independent, and The Times. Her election as leader of the Greens came six years after she joined the party in January 2006.

Elon Musk is an engineer, industrial designer, technology entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Elon Musk is the founder, CEO and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI. Elon Musk has been on several podcasts, most notably his appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.Musk is a citizen of South Africa, the United States (where he has lived most of his life and currently resides), and Canada. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People, and was ranked joint-first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019. As of May 2020, he has a net worth of $39.4 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 23rd-richest person in the world. He is the longest tenured CEO of any automotive manufacturer globally.Born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen's University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School and a bachelor's degree in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences. He began a Ph.D. in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University in 1995 but dropped out after two days to pursue a business career. He subsequently co-founded (with his brother Kimbal) Zip2, a web software company, which was acquired by Compaq for $340 million in 1999. Musk then founded X.com, an online bank. It merged with Confinity in 2000, which had launched PayPal the previous year and was subsequently bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.In May 2002, Elon Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of which he is CEO and lead designer. He joined Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.), an electric vehicle manufacturer, in 2004, the year after it was founded, and became its CEO and product architect. In 2006, he inspired the creation of SolarCity, a solar energy services company (now a subsidiary of Tesla). In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that aims to promote friendly artificial intelligence. In July 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain–computer interfaces. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel construction company focused on tunnels optimized for electric vehicles.Apart from Tesla, Musk is not an investor in the stock market. In addition to his primary business pursuits, Musk has envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop, and has proposed a vertical take-off and landing supersonic jet electric aircraft with electric fan propulsion, known as the Musk electric jet. Musk has said the goals of SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity revolve around his vision to "change the world and help humanity". His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the risk of human extinction by establishing a human colony on Mars.

Leo Varadkar is a Fine Gael politician.

Simon Harris is a politician.

Grant Shapps is a politician.