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Academic and author, working on ancient philosophy and its influence, especially Stoicism. I am Reader in the History of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, where among other things I am Director of the Centre for the Study and Application of Stoicism. I am also affiliated to King’s College London, where I am associated with the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project, and a Member of Common Room at Wolfson College, Oxford (where I was once a Junior Research Fellow). I am a member of the London Centre for Ancient Philosophy. I am also one of the founder members of Modern Stoicism, the group behind Stoic Week and Stoicon, and the Aurelius Foundation, a non-profit organisation devoted to sharing Stoic ideas.My books include The Art of Living: The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy (2003; 2nd edn 2009), Stoicism (2006), Hellenistic Philosophy (2018), Lessons in Stoicism (2019), Marcus Aurelius (2020), The Fourfold Remedy (2021), Barlaam of Seminara on Stoic Ethics (2022, with C. R. Hogg), and Aristotle (2023).