Alexander Görlach serves as affiliate professor in the “In Defence of Democracy” programme at the F. D. Roosevelt Foundation at Adams House,  Harvard College and as a honorary professor in ethics and theology at Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg, Germany. He is also a senior fellow to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and a senior advisor to the Berggruen Institute. Alex holds PhDs in comparative religion and in linguistics.
Prior to joining CIRIS Alex was a fellow at the Center for the Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge. He also served asВ visiting scholar and fellow to both Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Center forВ European Studies. In the academic year 2017-2018 Alex was a visiting scholar to TaipeiВ National University and the CityВ University Hong Kong. In East Asia Alex explored the impact Confucianism has on the state ideology of China and on other players in the region. While in Asia he also lectured in Seoul,В Singapore and Beijing.
Alex is the founder of the debate-magazine The European that he also ran as the editor in chief of the outlet in the years 2009-2015. Today Alex is an op-ed contributor to the New York Times, the Neue ZГјrcher Zeitung, and a columnist to the business weekly Wirtschaftswoche. He further runs the publicationВ www.saveliberaldemocracy.com.