Professor Pieter Francois

Professor Pieter Francois, Professor of Cultural Evolution, University of Oxford is the head of the Computational Humanities Lab, Regent’s Park College, University of London, and the Research Lead for the Resilient Societies Research Group, the Alan Turing Institute. He is the Founding and Executive Director of the Seshat Global History Databank. He employs a deep driver analysis to understand the most pressing and challenging issues facing the world today. He has a special interest in understanding the role religious tolerance and Freedom of Religion or Belief play in creating resilient and peaceful societies. Over the past five years he connected his empirical work with policy facing awareness raising initiatives, including through the IF20 network.