Dr Aaron Spevack (Brandeis University) will speak on the theme of 'Divinity' in the first in the Human Dignity in the Islamic Tradition seminar series.

Ali M. Ansari is Professor of Iranian History & Founding Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews; Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute. In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2018 he was elected Hon Vice…

Lord Thomas was appointed as the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales in 2013 and retired in October 2017. He was called to the Bar in 1969 and became a Queen’s Counsel in 1984. He was appointed an Assistant Recorder in 1984, a Recorder in 1987 and a High Court judge in 1996. His other senior…

Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE PC FBA, known as Lady Hale, served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2020. She served as Deputy President of the Supreme Court from 2013 to 2017.

Neil Ketchley is Associate Professor in Politics and Fellow of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on the dynamics of protest and activism in the Arabic-speaking Middle East and North Africa. His most recent book, Egypt in a Time of Revolution (Cambridge University Press…

Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). She received her BA from Tufts University and her MA and PhD in Economics from the…

Tobias was elected as Member of Parliament for Bournemouth East in May 2005, and subsequently re-elected in 2010, 2015, 2017 and most recently in December 2019.  He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with special responsibility for the Middle East and…

Ali-Reza Bhojani is Teaching Fellow in Islamic Theology and Ethics at the University of Birmingham’s Department of Theology and Religion. He also lectures at Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham, and is the co-director of the Centre for Intra-Muslim Studies. He is the author of Moral Rationalism and…