Revd Canon Professor James Walters

James is an alumnus and trustee of Westcott House. He is the Chair of the Council’s Curriculum sub-committee and also serves as a member on the Standing sub-committee.

James is Chaplain and a professor in practice at the London School of Economics and Political Science and founding director of the LSE Faith Centre and LSE Religion and Global Society.

He studied theology at Cambridge University and was a member of the community at Westcott House from 2003-2007. He has published several books including Loving Your Neighbour in an Age of Religious Conflict (Jessica Kingsley, 2019) Religious Imaginations: How Narratives of Faith are Shaping Today’s World (ed.) (Gingko Library, 2018) and a theological engagement with the work of the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard (Bloomsbury, 2012).

James is a member of the Academic Board of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Examination in Theology and an Honorary Canon of Chichester Cathedral.