A. C. Grayling

A. C. Grayling is the Founder and Principal of New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, and its Professor of Philosophy. He is the author of over thirty books of philosophy, biography, history of ideas, and essays including Discriminations, Who Owns the Moon?, The God Argument, Democracy and Its Crisis, and The History of Philosophy. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Guardian, Financial Times, Independent on Sunday, Economist and New Statesman. He has twice been a judge on the Booker Prize, in 2014 serving as the Chair of the judging panel. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Vice President of Humanists UK, Patron of the Defence Humanists, Honorary Associate of the Secular Society, and a Patron of Dignity in Dying.