Charles Petrie Author & Editor

Charles Petrie is a former UN official who rose to the rank of Assistant Secretary General before resigning from the organisation in 2010. He has had thirty years' experience working in contexts of conflict and famine. In 2014, he was made an OBE for services to international peace, security and human rights. Charles continues to be invited to participate at the highest levels of UN policy-making.

Spike Zephaniah Stephensonis an illustrator and writer from Portsmouth. He has illustrated comics and storyboards for film, as well as writing and illustrating his own graphic novels. His freelance work has taken him into schools, prisons and the Houses of Parliament and he has produced artwork for the O2, the British Council and Amnesty International. @spike_zephaniah