Rowan Douglas Williams

Dr. Rowan Douglas Williams currently serves at the Master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge and the Chancellor of the University of South Wales after serving as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first archbishop to be selected from beyond the Church of England in modern times. Before these positions, Williams had been Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, Bishop of Monmouth, and Archbishop of Wales, He also considers himself a metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and primate of All England, student and interpreter of religion, politics, and society, writer and teacher of philosophy, Christian theology, and spirituality, peace activist and supporter of interfaith understanding and international development, and finally an author of several works of scholarship, including a study of Dostoevsky. One of Williams' books, Poems of Rowan Williams, was a finalist for the 2004 Wales Book of the Year Award and he has received awards for his charitable work for Pakistan and the Russian Federation and fellowships from the Royal Society of Literature, British Academy, and Learned Society of Wales.