Adrian Pabst

Adrian Pabst (born 1976) is a German religious scholar and political scientist who has published numerous books and essays on the role of ethics and religion in politics since 2009 as a professor at the University of Kent.

Pabst earned an MA in religious studies from the University of Cambridge, a Master of Science from the London School of Economics and a PhD in the history of political ideas and philosophy of religion from the University of Cambridge (2002–2006). He then conducted research at the University of Nottingham on a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2007–09). In addition to German, he is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

In addition to his teaching and research work, Pabst frequently writes articles on geopolitics, political economy, Europe and religion in internationally renowned media such as the International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, The Moscow Times, The National, The Huffington Post, the Australian research portal The Conversation, ABC Rubrik Religion & Ethics and Les Échos. In 2012 he joined the non-partisan think tank ResPublica. Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal (Polity, 2021) with Ian Geary, Adrian Pabst (Hrsg.): Blue Labour: Forging a New Politics, I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury 2015.