Professor Tariq Ramadan, Andrew Copson, the chief executive of the British Humanist Association, and Douglas Murray, founder of the Centre for Social Cohesion, will also take part.
Late in 2010 he reached out to Andrew Murstein, president of Medallion Financial, a provider of taxicab financing, and Douglas Bergeron, the chief executive of Verifone Systems, which handles electronic payments for banks and retailers.