Rabbi Alex Goldberg

Rabbi Alex Goldberg is a barrister, chaplain, and human rights expert. He is currently the Dean of Religious Life and Belief at the University of Surrey. He is the only Rabbi within this role in Europe. He continues to work on a number of international and UK-based community relations and community development projects and is the Rabbi to a growing Jewish community connected to the University of Surrey. Alex is a contributor to BBC Radio 2's Pause For Thought and was a member of the BBC's Religion and Ethics Conference.

He chairs the English Football Association's Faith Network; founded the human rights group René Cassin, is an advisory member of the UK’s Religion Media Centre and Centre for Britain and Europe.

He was founding chair of Faiths Forum for London and the Mayor of London's Faith Conference. He led a delegation to the UN Human Rights Council for over a decade where he successfully changed international law in relation to group access to justice. In 2012, he was an Olympic and Paralympic Chaplain.