Anthony Grayling is the Founder and Principal of New College of the Humanities (UK Campus at Northeastern University, USA), and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. Until 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London.
He writes the “Thinking Read” column for the Barnes and Noble Review in New York, is the Editor of Online Review London, and a Contributing Editor of Prospect magazine. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy and other subjects, and for several years, he wrote the “Last Word” column for the Guardian newspaper and a column for the Times.
In addition, he was the Honorary Secretary of the Aristotelian Society for nearly ten years and he currently is a representative to the UN Human Rights Council for the International Humanist and Ethical Union. He is a Vice President of the British Humanist Association, the Patron of the UK Armed Forces Humanist Association, and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.
Anthony Grayling was a Fellow of the World Economic Forum for several years and has served as a Trustee of the London Library and a board member of the Society of Authors. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has been judge of the Man Booker Prize, Art Fund prize, and Wellcome Book Prize.