Professor Robert P George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, is the inaugural speaker in a new series at the Blavatnik School of Government.

International Perspectives on Conservatism is a series that aims to deepen our understanding of what the political right does and should stand for, and how it can contribute to stable, free, prosperous and secure democratic societies globally. Speakers will be leading academics and policymakers from around the world. Find out more about the project International Perspectives on Conservatism.

Speaker biographies

Professor Robert P George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He has served as Chairman of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and as a presidential appointee to the US Commission on Civil Rights and the US President’s Council on Bioethics. He has also been the US member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. He was a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States, where he received the Justice Tom C Clark Award.

Tom Simpson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at Wadham College. At the Blavatnik School he co-directs the Master of Public Policy, and directs the Military Leadership and Judgment Programme. His work has attracted over £1m in research and programmatic funding.