Graham Priest (born 1948, London) is Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as a regular visitor at St. Andrews University. Priest is a fellow in residence at Ormond College. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics. His thesis advisor was John Lane Bell.
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