Director Emeritus
Richard brings t
o the Centre a wide range of experience in business, the church and public life. He holds a degree in Economics and Accounting and spent over eight years as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst and Young. He also served as the youngest ever member of the Press Council.
Richard also holds a first class honours degree in Theology and PhD in Theology from the University of Durham. He was ordained into the ministry of the Church of England in 1994. He has served on the General Synod and was a member of the Archbishops’ Council, the Chairman of the Synod’s Business Committee and chaired a number of church working parties including a review of the remuneration of the clergy.
Richard served in the pastoral ministry for over 10 years, was Principal of Wycliffe Hall, a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford from 2005-2012 and has been the Director of the Centre from 2012. He has authored several books including an acclaimed biography of the social reformer, Lord Shaftesbury, is a member of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Acting Director
Andrei joined CEME in 2015 and is the author of several publications, including The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence, Ethics in Global Business, and Taxing Families Fairly (published with Policy Exchange). His main area of research addresses the moral foundation and the impact of AI within the field of business. He applies a distinctive theological perspective rooted in Judaeo-Christian teaching. He also writes regularly on the wider socioeconomic challenges facing Britain and beyond.
Andrei’s background is in political consulting and media relations, having previously worked in Westminster on bespoke political campaigns for several high-profile politicians and members of the Cabinet.
Andrei holds a CTS in Theology from Oxford University, an MSc. in Business Administration from University College London (UCL), and a B.A. (Hons.) in Political Science and International Relations from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Prior to moving to the UK, Andrei lived in Romania and South Africa as part of a diplomatic family.
Senior Research Fellow
John joined the Centre in 2021 after finishing his Ph.D. in Economics at George Mason University. He spent the 2020-21 academic year as a Final Year Fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University.
His role involves research on family business as part of the Centre’s Ethics and Theology project and contributions to the wider work of the Centre. As part of this, he completed research on the role of the great estates in the private provision of land planning. He has other work on the role of markets in housing and environmental issues. John’s academic research has focused mainly on the history of economics and housing.
Senior Editor
Neil Jordan brings to CEME seventeen years’ experience of academic publishing, having previously served as a senior commissioning editor for Ashgate and Routledge where he specialised in research level publications in the social sciences. His primary focus was on sociology and social theory. Neil has also been employed as a teacher of philosophy and religious studies. He holds bachelor’s and doctoral degrees in philosophy, both from the University of Southampton, and has published on the subject of ethics.
Associate Fellow
Born in New York in 1964, Prof. Martin Schlag is an Austrian and American citizen. He obtained his degree in jurisprudence from the University of Vienna and holds doctorates both in law (1989) and in theology (1998). Lawyer and theologian, he was ordained a priest in 1996. Consequent upon his pastoral work in Vienna, in 2008 he became a professor of the Social Doctrine of the Church at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. In 2012, he was nominated consultor to the Pontifical Council for Peace and Justice.
Prof. Schlag is also the Director of the Markets, Culture and Ethics Research Centre (MCE). The MCE is a research centre of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross involving the collaboration of the faculties of Theology and Philosophy with the aim of studying the ethical aspects (social and individual) of economic and social life, in light of reason and the Catholic faith
Associate Fellow
Philip Booth is professor of finance, public policy, and ethics and director of Catholic Mission at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham (the U.K.’s largest Catholic university). He is also Director of Policy and Research at the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. He was also academic and research director at the Institute of Economic Affairs from 2002 to 2016 and senior academic fellow there from 2016 to 2021.
Previously, Philip Booth has worked for the Bank of England and as associate dean of Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School. He has written widely on investment, finance, social insurance, and pensions, as well as on the relationship between Catholic social teaching and economics. His books (as editor or co-author) have included Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy; Catholic Social Thought the Market and Public Policy; The Road to Economic Freedom (a compilation of work by a number of Nobel Prize Winners in economics); Verdict on the Crash; and Christian Perspectives on the Financial Crash. Philip is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, and an honorary member of the Society of Actuaries of Poland.
He has previously worked in the investment department of Axa Equity and Law and has been involved in a number of projects to develop actuarial professions and actuarial, finance, and investment professional teaching programs in Central and Eastern Europe. Philip has a B.A. in economics from the University of Durham and a Ph.D. from City University.
Trey Dimsdale serves as counsel at First Liberty Institute and as executive director of the Center for Religion, Culture, & Democracy. His writing appears frequently at outlets such as Religion and Liberty, Public Discourse, and Law and Liberty, as well as Providence where he serves as a contributing editor. He is a regular conference speaker in the U.S. and Europe, and his speaking engagements have included presentations at the European Parliament, the European Economic Summit, the Anglican Leadership Forum, the Congress of Christian Leaders, and the Bipartisan Policy Council among others. He earned undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and also holds graduate degrees in theology and ethics. His research interests include U.S. and comparative constitutional law, religious and economic freedom, and the role of religion in forming national identity. He is a member of the Philadelphia Society, the Federalist Society, and the State Bar of Texas.
Associate Fellow
Christopher is Professor of New Testament at the Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia, in the city of Medellín. Born in California, he took three degrees from Wheaton College in Illinois before undertaking a peripatetic course of doctoral study, during which he traversed the Universities of St Andrews, Oxford, and Bonn. He was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow on the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford from 2010-2013, after which he moved to South America to serve as a missionary-scholar in Colombia.
Christopher spends a good deal of his time investigating how Christians should use their money, a subject he calls “Christian wealth ethics”. His doctoral thesis, Luke’s Wealth Ethics: A Study in Their Coherence and Character (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010) examined wealth ethics in Luke and Acts, and the CEME has sponsored the production of a popular version of that book, entitled Renounce All Your Possessions? (New York: Paulist, 2016). His postdoctoral research investigated the teachings and practices of early Christians prior to the rise of Constantine. At present, his research focuses on mobilizing the Christian Church to respond to the crisis of forced internal displacement in Colombia.
Beyond collaborating with the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics, Christopher is engaged in a wide range of interdisciplinary research. Owing to his fascination with the intersection of critical biblical scholarship and confessional Christianity, he has co-edited (with Christopher B. Ansberry) the book Evangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism (SPCK, 2013). He contributed to the faith-science debate as part of a team of Oxford scholars working on a Biologos-funded project called “Configuring Adam and Eve”; the results of that collaboration are forthcoming in the volume Evolution and Theology: Implications for the Christian Doctrines of Original Sin, the Image of God, and the Problem of Evil, Stan Rosenberg, ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016). He also led an ecumenical and interdisciplinary colloquium on eschatology, the results of are being published in the volume When the Son of Man Didn’t Come: A Constructive Proposal on the Delay of the Parousia (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2016).
Associate Fellow
Tim Weinhold is the Director of Faith and Business for Eventide Funds, an award-winning, values-based family of mutual funds in Boston, MA. He has served in a faith-and-business/investing-thought-leadership capacity with Eventide since its founding. Tim is also an adjunct faculty member of the School of Business, Government, and Economics at Seattle Pacific University and serves on the school’s Executive Advisory Board. Until recently, he also served on the Executive Committee of the school’s Center for Integrity in Business.
Tim has had an extensive and varied career in business. He co-founded four entrepreneurial ventures, including a VC-funded computer graphics company for which he developed the original product idea. For several years he provided real estate consulting to major corporations, including John Hancock, General Electric, Gillette, and Reebok.
Tim writes extensively, and speaks periodically, about the importance of a ‘Love your neighbor’ understanding of business purpose and practice. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Government from Harvard University.
Associate Fellow
Revd Dr Andy Hartropp is an economist, theologian and church minister. He has two PhDs, one in Economics and one in Christian Ethics. He lectured in financial economics for 5 years at Brunel University, west London. He also worked for a year with the Jubilee Centre in Cambridge, primarily leading a team doing research on families in debt. He trained at Oak Hill College, London, for ordained ministry in the Church of England. His (second) PhD was published as: What is Economic Justice? Biblical and secular perspectives contrasted (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2007). He has spent 13 years in parish ministry. He worked for eight years with the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, where he was the Sundo Kim Research Tutor in Mission and Economics. In March 2016 he joined Waverley Abbey College as Director of Higher Education. He chairs the Ethics and Social Theology Group of the Tyndale Fellowship. He is married to Claire, and they live in Bicester, near Oxford.