Os Guinness

Os Guinness is an author, social critic, and the great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer. He received his undergraduate from the University of London and his DPhil in the social sciences from Oxford. Os has written or edited more than thirty books which offer valuable insight into the cultural, political and social contexts in which we all live. These include: The Call, Unspeakable, A Free People’s Suicide, and The Global Public Square. His latest book, The Magna Carta of Humanity was published in 2021.

Os has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies, a Guest Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum. Os has long been passionate about religious freedom. He served as the lead drafter of the ‘Williamsburg Charter’ in 1988 (a bicentennial celebration of the bicentennial of the US First Amendment), and later a drafter of ‘The Global Charter of Conscience’, published at the European Union Parliament in 2012.

He currently resides happily with his wife Jenny in the Washington DC area.