Ziauddin Sardar

Professor Sardar has worked as a science journalist for Nature and New Scientist, as reporter for London Weekend Television and Channel 4 and has made numerous television and radio programmes, including ‘Battle for Islam’, a 90-minute documentary for the BBC. Most recently, he wrote the three part BBC series ‘Life of Mohammad’. He co-edited the critical arts journal Third Text from 1996 to 2006, served as a Commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission from 2006 to 2009 and as a member of the National Security Forum from 2008 to 2010. A former columnist on the New Statesman, he is the editor of Futures, the monthly journal of policy, planning and futures studies; and co-editor of Critical Muslim, a quarterly magazine of new thinking on Islam. He is the Chair of the Muslim Institute and of the Black Umbrella Trust.