A. C. Grayling - Positions Held

Positions Held

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
  • Fellow of the World Economic Forum (2000–2004)
  • Member of the editorial boards of Reason in Practice and Prospect
  • British Academy visitor to the Institute of Philosophy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1986)
  • Director of the Sino-British Summer School in Philosophy in Beijing (1988, 1993)
  • Jan Hus Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (1994 and 1996)
  • Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (1998)
  • Honorary Secretary of the Aristotelian Society (1993–2001)
  • Gifford Lecturer at the University of Glasgow (2005)
  • Past chairman of June Fourth, a human rights group concerned with China
  • Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society
  • Patron of the British Armed Forces Humanist Association UK Armed Forces Humanist Association (UKAFHA)
  • Representative to the UN Human Rights Council for the International Humanist and Ethical Union
  • Vice-president, British Humanist Association. In June 2011, it was announced that he had decided not to take up the position of President of the BHA.
  • Member of the C1 World Dialogue group on relations between Islam and the West

Read more about this topic:  A. C. Grayling

Famous quotes containing the words positions and/or held:

    “What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.”
    —Claud Cockburn (1904–1981)

    “Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your “emancipation.” You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields—discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West—superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.”
    —Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)