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 currently advises Ofcom, the UK telecommunications and social media regulator, as part of its Online Information Advisory Committee. 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 New Generation Thinker, British Academy Rising Star, and recipient of the Berger Memorial Prize from the American Philosophical Association. His first book—Setting Fire to Reason: The Ethics of Free Speech—is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. Originally from New England, he earned his DPhil at Oxford and AB at Harvard.