Mr Murray is Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, and author of the critically acclaimed Neoconservatism: Why We Need It.  He is the youngest published biographer in history, and appears regularly on British and international media outlets.   The Centre for Social Cohesion was founded to address the diminishing sense of community in Britain, and recently released a widely publicised report, Hate on the State: How British libraries encourage Islamic extremism.  Mr Murray will make a presentation and lead a discussion on the future of neoconservative thinking in foreign policy.    A short biography of Mr Murray is enclosed below.

    To attend, please RSVP to Pantucci@iiss.org [1].  Space is limited for this event, so please respond promptly, and only if you are confident that you can attend. 

Douglas Murray

Douglas Murray is Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion and a bestselling author and commentator. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed Neoconservatism: Why We Need It (SAU, UK: Encounter Books, US) which Christopher Hitchens praised in the Washington Examiner as 'a very cool but devastating analysis', and which caused Andrew Roberts to hail Murray as 'The Right's answer to Michael Moore,' saying, 'This book shows how to fight and win the War on Terror.'

On publication of the UK edition, the leading Arabic daily Asharq Alawsat wrote that 'Whether one agrees with him or not Murray has made a valuable contribution to the global battle of ideas.'

Murray lectures and broadcasts widely. He appears regularly on the BBC (including 'The Today Programme', 'Newsnight' and 'The Moral Maze'), as well as Fox, Sky and many other global media networks. He did a number of broadcasts from the Israeli side of the border during the recent war with Hezbollah.

He also appears in the British and foreign press, and has written for The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The New York Sun, NRC Handelsbad and numerous other magazines and newspapers.

Murray also lectures and debates widely across Europe and America. In the last year he has spoken at, among other venues, the Manhattan Institute (New York), The Battle of Ideas (London), the Burke Institute, (Vanenburg), The Pim Fortuyn Memorial Conference (The Hague), the Hudson Institute (Washington), the Freedom Center (LA) and the White House. In January 2007 he debated the Mayor of London at the 'Clash of Civilisations' debate in London.