Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, the founding (former) Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol, and the co-founder of the international journal Ethnicities. He has held over 40 grants and consultancies, has over 35 (co-)authored and (co-)edited books and reports and over 350 articles and chapters. He was awarded an MBE by the Queen for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in 2001, was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) in 2004 and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017. In 2022, he was ranked in the top 20 UK-cited Politics, Law, Sociology and Social Policy scholars. He served on the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life and has been an advisor to the All- Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims, the European Commission on Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) and to the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB). His latest books are Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism (2019) and with T. Sealy, The New Governance of Religious Diversity (2024). He has a You Tube Channel, and his website is tariqmodood.com