Andrew Copson
Andrew Copson is Chief Executive of Humanists UK. He became Chief Executive in 2010 after five years coordinating Humanists UK’s education and public affairs work. Andrew is also current President of Humanists International.
Together with A C Grayling, Andrew edited the Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Humanism and he is the author of Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom. He has written on humanist and secularist issues for The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, and New Statesman.
Andrew has represented Humanists UK and the humanist movement extensively on national television including on BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Sky, on programmes such as Newsnight, The Daily Politics, Sunday Morning Live, and The Big Questions, as well as on BBC radio programmes such as the Today programme, The World at One, The Last Word, and Beyond Belief.