Patron - Professor AC Grayling
AC Grayling is a British philosopher and author. He is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts. He became Patron of the UK Armed Forces Humanist Association in August 2007.
Anthony has written and edited many books on philosophy and other subjects. For several years he wrote the ‘Last Word’ column for The Guardian and is a regular contributor to the Literary Review and the Financial Times. He often writes for the Observer, Economist, Times Literary Supplement, Independent on Sunday and New Statesman, and is a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radios 4, 3 and the World Service. In addition he sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals, and for nearly ten years was the Honorary Secretary of the principal British Philosophical Association, the Aristotelian Society. He is a past chairman of June Fourth, a human rights group concerned with China, and has been involved in UN human rights initiatives. Anthony Grayling is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and a member of its C-100 group on relations between the West and the Islamic world. In 2003 he was a Booker Prize judge.
Our Patron has written widely on contemporary issues including war crimes, the legalisation of drugs, euthanasia, secularism, and human rights. In support of his belief that the philosopher should engage in public debate, he brings the philosophical perspective to issues of the day; he has made the basics of philosophy available to the layman. Among the Dead Cities, his study of the ethics of the application of military force against civilians during the Allied strategic bombing offensives of the Second World War has been widely acclaimed. Anthony is a regular visiting lecturer at the Joint Services Command and Staff College at The United Kingdom Defence Academy.
Secretary - Henry Cummins
Henry joined the Army in 1986, and The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards in 1987. His operational service includes multiple tours in the Balkans and Middle East. He is currently an instructor at the Defence Academy, is married and has three young children. Henry became an atheist as a result of his experience of sectarian and inter-ethnic violence in Kosovo between 1999 and 2001, and discovered Humanism shortly thereafter.
Reserves representative - Amanda Washbrook
Amanda is an Officer Cadet with 36 Signal Regt (V), having joined the TA as a private soldier in 2004. She studied English at Cambridge and worked for a while as a lecturer at a Further Education college and local Regional University Partnership. Amanda currently runs a fitness business with her partner, and lives in Suffolk.
Royal Air Force Representative - Dave Wilcock
Dave is a Staff Nurse of the PMRAFNS currently serving at MDHU Portsmouth. He joined the RAF in 1989 and has followed a journey familiar to many Humanists of having been on the peripheries of religion, through being agnostic and then atheist before realising he was a Humanist all along! Aside from Humanism, his interests include triathlon, coin collecting and wildlife photography. He spends rather too much time listening to Radio 4!
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- Prof. A C Grayling
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