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Alexander Görlach is an academic journalist and entrepreneur. He was visiting scholar at the College of Harvard University, at Adams House, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow to Harvard's Center for European Studies and fellow of the
Harvard Divinity School Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school's mission is to educate its students either in the academic study of religion or for leadership roles in religion, gov ...
. Görlach is currently a senior research associate at Cambridge University, at the Institute on Religion and International Studies. Prior to that he served at the Center for Humanities (CRASH) at Cambridge University as fellow. He is the founder of the debate-magazine The European, that he also ran as its editor in chief from 2009–2015. Today he publishes www.saveliberaldemocracy.com and serves as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, and a columnist to the business magazine Wirtschaftswo he.


Personal life

Görlach was born as the child of Turkish migrant workers in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Shortly afterwards, he was adopted and raised by a German family.


Studies

After graduating from High School, Görlach received a scholarship from the
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (german: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, KAS) is a German political party foundation associated with but independent of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The foundation's headquarters are located in Sank ...
and subsequently studied Catholic theology and philosophy at
University of Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stud ...
,
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in
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as well as Al-Azhar University in
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and the Faculty of Theology in Ankara. He also studied German studies,
Political Science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...
and music. He received his PhD in
comparative religion Comparative religion is the branch of the study of religions with the systematic comparison of the doctrines and practices, themes and impacts (including migration) of the world's religions. In general the comparative study of religion yie ...
from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 2006 and in linguistics, in the field of language and politics, from
University of Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stud ...
in 2009.


Political affiliation

Alexander Görlach is a member of the German Liberal Party (FDP), joining in September 2016 after having been a member of the German Christian Democratic Party (CDU) for ten years.


Professional life

Görlach has been working and publishing for several German media outlets, such as ZDF, German Television. He has been and is published in several German media outlets such as
Die Welt ''Die Welt'' ("The World") is a German national daily newspaper, published as a broadsheet by Axel Springer SE. ''Die Welt'' is the flagship newspaper of the Axel Springer publishing group. Its leading competitors are the ''Frankfurter All ...
,
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, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit and
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magazine. From 2007 to 2009 he was executive editor of the online part of ''
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'' magazine. Today he is focused on international publications: He is an op-ed contributor to the New York Times and to The World Post.


References

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