Dr James Orr is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge, a position he took up after four years as a postdoctoral fellow at the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life at the University of Oxford.
He is Chair of the Edmund Burke Foundation UK, the vehicle that convenes the National Conservatism movement in the United Kingdom (“NatConUK”).
He is engaged in a range of policy debates in the public square, including freedom of conscience and belief, academic freedom and freedom of speech, patriotism and nationhood, and bioethical issues arising at the beginning and end of human life.
He is a Trustee of St Paul’s Theological Centre, an Associate Fellow of ResPublica, and a member of the Advisory Councils of the New Social Covenant Unit, the Free Speech Union, the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation, History Reclaimed, and Briefings for Britain.