Andrew Copson

Andrew became Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association (BHA) in 2010 after five years coordinating the BHA’s education and public affairs work. His writing on humanist and secularist issues has appeared in the Guardian, IndependentTimes and New Statesman as well as in various journals. He came to the BHA in 2005 from the Citizenship Foundation.

He is a former director of the European Humanist Federation and a current Vice President of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. He has been an adviser on Humanism to the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Authority, the Department for Children, Schools and Families, the BBC, and the Office of National Statistics among others.

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Sunday 30 October 2011, 1.45pm Courtyard Gallery
Sunday 30 October 2011, 5.30pm Lecture Theatre 2

Foreign Policy After Blair

"In few places does the free exchange of views take place on so wide a range of issues as at the Battle of Ideas. Whatever the headlines of 2011 prove to be, the Battle of Ideas is where they will be most robustly debated."
Andrew Copson, chief executive, British Humanist Association

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