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Dr Damian Howard

Dr Howard is an English Jesuit priest. He studied theology at Trinity College, Cambridge and at the Centre Sèvres in Paris and philosophy at the London School of Economics. He went on to read Islamic studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, before gaining his doctorate in contemporary Islamic thought from the University of Birmingham. In October 2010 he was invited by Pope Benedict XVI to take part in the Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Middle East and is regularly in demand at the Holy See and elsewhere as a speaker and broadcaster. In addition to academic work, Dr Howard has served in a variety of Jesuit works including secondary schools (St Ignatius College, Enfield, St Aloysius College, Glasgow), a parish (Corpus Christi in Brixton) as well as a social centre in Brussels (OCIPE – Jesuit European Office) and also in the formation of novices. He has collaborated extensively with the African Jesuit AIDS Network. He regularly writes for and is on the editorial committee of the British Jesuit on-line journal, Thinking Faith. He is the author of Being Human in Islam: The Impact of the Evolutionary Worldview, (London: Routledge, 2011). He is currently a lecturer at Heythrop College (since September 2010) and Vice-Director of the Bellarmine Institute of Theology and Philosophy (since 2014).