Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist, author and atheist. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. He has written many acclaimed books including The Selfish Gene (OUP, 1976), The God Delusion (Bantam, 2006), and Flights of Fancy (Head of Zeus, 2021).
After his lecture, Richard Dawkins was joined on stage by Dame Angela McLean, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government, for a discussion moderated by legendary journalist John Simpson.