Alexander Görlach

Alexander Görlach is an adjunct professor to NYU Gallatin School where he teaches democratic theory.[1] Prior to that he had various positions as visiting scholar and as fellow at Harvard University[2] in the United States, and Cambridge University[3] and Oxford University[4] in the United Kingdom. He is a senior fellow to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs[5][6] in New York and a senior advisor to the Berggruen Institute[7] in Los Angeles. Alexander holds a ThD in comparative religion and a PhD in linguistics. His academic interests include democratic theory, politics and religion, and theories of secularism, pluralism and cosmopolitanism.[8] In the academic year 2017-18 he was a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University[9] and City University Hongkong.[10] Since then he focuses on the rise of China and what it means for the democracies in East Asia.[11] Alexander Görlach is an honorary professor of ethics and theology[12] at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. Alexander Görlach is the founder of the debate-magazine The European, that he also ran as its editor in chief from 2009 to 2015.[13] Today he serves as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times,[14] Neue Zürcher Zeitung,[15][16] and the South China Morning Post.[17] He is a columnist to the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche,[18] Deutsche Welle[19] and Focus Online.[20] He is a frequent commentator on German News Channel WeLT TV.[21][22][23]

Alexander Görlach
Görlach, on stage at TEDx Berlin in 2012
Born	(1976-12-28) 28 December 1976 Ludwigshafen, West Germany (now Germany)
Occupation	professor Columnist, book author, speaker
Nationality	German
Genre	geo-politics, academia, journalism, entrepreneurship
Subject	Politics, democratic theory, religion, geo-politics, China, Taiwan
Website
alexandergoerlach.com