Peter Heslam
Peter Heslam
United Kingdom
male
Associate Lecturer in Social and Economic Ethics
Peter was Director of LICC's Capitalism Project and Lecturer in Social and Economic Ethics from 2000-2004. During this time he produced a stream of publications, including Globalization: Unravelling the New Capitalism (Grove 2002) and Globalization and the Good (SPCK/Eerdmans, 2004).
He also co-founded and became Convenor of JustShare, a coalition of Christian agencies and denominations working closely with senior levels of global business enterprise, particularly with banks and multinational corporations with significant operations in the City of London. Soon after he became Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams appointed him as his representative on economic ethics at the World Council of Churches.
In recognition of contribution to the debate about globalization whilst at LICC, particularly through his publications and his involvement in JustShare, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in July 2004.
Before he came to LICC, Peter had established an international scholarly reputation with the publication of his much-acclaimed Creating a Christian Worldview: Abraham Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism (Paternoster/Eerdmans, 1998). After a curacy in the Church of England he became Director of Studies in the Cambridge Theological Federation.
Peter is now Associate Tutor at Ridley Hall in Cambridge and Director-designate of the Transformative Business Project at Cambridge University. This Project will be based in the Divinity Faculty but have close links with the Judge Institute of Management (the University's business school) and with the real world of business. Peter is currently fundraising for this new initiative, as well as working on a book on biblical paradigms relevant to contemporary business enterprise.
For a summary of the achievements of the Capitalism Project click here: Review of LICC's Capitalism Project (September 2000-August 2004).
For an abridged version of the project proposal for the Transformative Business Project, click here: transformative_business_project.pdf.
The application of theology to business.
Trying to keep up with Samuel and Benjamin, my two boys, in developing skills in tennis, golf, piano and in generally having lots of fun.
