Alastair Donald is associate director of the Academy of Ideas and co-convenor of the Battle of Ideas festival. He is also secretary of Ideas Matter and convenor of Living Freedom, the initiative that exists to renew freedom through education and debate.
Alastair has worked in the UK and internationally to develop festivals, exhibitions and curated programmes. He is author of The Scottish Question, published as part of the series Letters on Liberty and co-editor of two books, The Lure of the City: from slums to suburbs (2011) and The Future of Community: reports of a death greatly exaggerated (2008). He is co-director of Future Cities Project and a founding member of mantownhuman which published Manifesto: towards a new humanism in architecture (2008). The Manifesto featured in Penguin Classics 100 Artists’ Manifestos.