A.C. Grayling

Anthony Clifford Grayling is a British philosopher born in 1949 in Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). He held a professorship in philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London from 1991 until 2011, when he resigned to found the New College of the Humanities as its first Master. He is the author of approximately 30 books covering philosophy, biography, history of ideas, human rights and ethics. He has been a columnist for The Guardian, presented a BBC World Service science series, and is active in public debate on issues including humanist ethics, secularism, and human rights.