Jeffrey Howard is a philosopher at University College London, where he is the Director of the Digital Speech Lab and Professor of Political Philosophy & Public Policy. He is also Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University. He has published widely on freedom of expression and its limits, counter-extremism, social media, the ethics of democratic citizenship, the philosophy of criminal punishment, and many other topics. He is a UKRI Future Leader Fellow, BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, British Academy Rising Star, and recipient of the Berger Memorial Prize from the American Philosophical Association. He is currently writing a book—Setting Fire to Reason: The Ethics of Free Speech—under contract with Princeton University Press. Originally from New England, he earned his DPhil at Oxford and AB at Harvard.