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Place of Birth: Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
About Alexander Görlach
- Alexander Görlach is an academic journalist and entrepreneur.
- He served in various positions at Harvard, amongst others as visiting scholar and J.F.
- Kennedy Memorial Fellow to the Center for European Studies and as a visiting scholar to Harvard Divinity School.
- Alex is currently a senior research associate at Cambridge University, at the Institute on Religion and International Studies.
- Prior to that he served at the Center for Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge University as fellow.
- Alex is an honorary professor for theology and ethics at the university of Lüneburg in Germany, a senior fellow to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and a senior advisor to the Berggruen Institute.
- Alex’ work is on narratives of identity, liberal democracy and populism, politics and religion, and ethics in the age of AI and rising technology.
- In this capacity he also serves as a Future World Fellow at the Center for the Governance of Change at IE University in Madrid.
- In the academic year 2017-2018 Alex was a visiting scholar to National Taiwan University and City University of Hong Kong, studying East Asian democracies and the rise of China.
- Alexander is the founder of the debate-magazine The European, that he also ran as its editor in chief from 2009-2015.
- Today he publishes www.saveliberaldemocracy.com and serves as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and a columnist to the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche.
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