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BBC presenter, economist and journalist Evan Davis is to chair the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction as the £20,000 award reaches its 12th anniversary.
The other judges are author and Financial Times arts editor Jan Dalley; Times executive editor Daniel Finkelstein; science journalist, author and broadcaster Roger Highfield; and historian Stella Tillyard.
The prize is open to authors of all non-fiction books published in the UK.
The longlist, of approximately 20 titles, will be announced in late April and the shortlist of up to six titles in late May. The winner will be revealed in July, with each of the five runners-up receiving £1,000.
Last year's winner was Philip Hoare for Leviathan, Or The Whale (Fourth Estate).