Bio
Edward Brooks is the Senior Fellow for Pedagogical Development for the Educating Character Initiative. He is the Executive Director of the Oxford Character Project and Director of the Programme for Global Leadership in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He is also the co-founder of Oxford’s SDG Impact Lab, the Global Leadership Challenge, and Oxford Global Leadership Initiative. Brooks’s research lies at the intersection of virtue ethics, character education, and leadership studies, and he has designed and delivered character and leadership development programs for universities and organizations around the world. He has been named by Thinkers50 on their radar list of emerging business influencers. He is the co-author of Character Education in Universities: A Framework for Flourishing (2020) and co-editor of The Arts of Leading: Perspectives from the Humanities and Liberal Arts (2024), Cultivating Virtue in the University (2022), and Literature and Character Education in Universities (2021).