David Ford

Dr. David F. Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge and founding director of Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme in the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies. He is the author of numerous books including: The Future of Christian Theology. He was awarded the Sternberg Foundation Gold Medal for Inter-Faith Relations in 2008, the Coventry International Prize for Peace and Reconciliation in 2012, an OBE (Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire), for services to theological scholarship and inter-faith relations, in 2013, and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Birmingham, Bolton, Aberdeen, and Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya (Haridwar, India). He was Principal Investigator in the Cambridge University ‘Religion and the Idea of a Research University’ project (2011-2013), and the Oxford University Bampton Lecturer for 2015. He is currently a member of the Theology, Modernity and the Arts project at Duke University Divinity School. He is a McDonald Distinguished Scholar, a Visiting Professor at St Mellitus College, London, a Lay Canon of Birmingham Cathedral, and in 2018 was the holder of the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair on The Life and Teachings of Jesus and their Impact on Culture at Candler School of Theology, Emory University.