and he ran several annual summer schools, spring schools, graduate workshops, policy-making seminars, and classic colloquia. Furthermore, Flather fund-raised for the Europaeum's visiting professorships and scholarships programmes. Flather's time at the Europaeum ended in 2017, when he stepped down from his position as secretary-general. Flather is now the Director of Special Projects at the Europeaum. Over the years, Flather has given lectures all over the world, chairing sessions and coordinating workshops, conferences and summer schools all over Europe, including high-level sessions for the British Council on how to battle corruption, published many articles, chapters, edited collections, reports and books, and advised the EU on how to take forward is relations with India in the lead to the 50th anniversary of its independence. Flather joined the Moot in 2004 and currently chairs the Round Table’s Web Group Advisory Group. At Oxford University, he was Tutor to MPhil students and an Associate Fellow of Queen Elizabeth House, from 1986 to 1987, and a fellow of Corpus Christi College from 1994 to 2000. He has been a Fellow of Mansfield College since 2001. Activism Throughout the 1980s, Flather worked with dissident movements in Central Europe and race equality groups in the UK. In 1985, at that time serving as Trustee of the Jan Hus Educational Foundation, he was arrested and expelled for smuggling books and giving underground lectures in Czechoslovakia. Among many other, prominent intellectuals such as Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Ernst Tugendhat, Thomas Nagel, and Ernest Gellner, Flather was working with the Foundation to support academic dissidents and promote links between academics in Britain and Czechoslovakia. In 1998, he was awarded a Commemorative Medal by Václav Havel, then President of the new Czech Republic. Flather speaks of his experience during this time here, while discussing restoring scholarship and academic from in Czech and Slovak nations. Flather also chairs the Noon Educational Foundation supporting Pakistani scholars to study at top UK universities, is on the editorial board of RoundTable journal, serves as chair of the British Organisation of People of Indian Origin, and remains involved with charities, civic bodies and race bodies. Talks, Lectures, Broadcasts Advisor, Global Sustainability Film Awards (16-20 November 2020). Convener, Estorii Political Forum 2020. Speaker in 'Europaeum Special Debate: Is Democracy in the 21st Century Beginning to Fail?' (October 2020). Voices from Oxford, Mansfield College, Brexit and Science Talk to Ewha Woman's University (2017) T-talks, The Optimist’s