Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, Susan Neiman is a moral philosopher who has written extensively about the problem of evil as the central question driving the best of modern philosophy. Her work on ethics constitutes a powerful defense of a set of values inherited from the Enlightenment—happiness, reason, reverence, and hope. Dr. Neiman is a graduate of Harvard University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and took her baccalaureate degree, as well as a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1986. She did post-graduate work at the Free University of Berlin. Joining the philosophy faculty of Yale University in 1989 as an assistant professor, she was promoted to associate professor and then moved on to Tel Aviv University as an associate professor of philosophy in 1996. She was named to her current position in 2000. Recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Heinrich Heine Stiftung für Philosophie Kritsche Wissenschaft Fellowship, a senior research fellowship given by the American Council of Learned Societies, and a research fellowship awarded by the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, Dr. Neiman was awarded a Morse Fellowship by Yale as well as the university’s Ribicoff Prize for Teaching Excellence. She is a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and an elected member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. She is also a trustee of the Albert Einstein Institut in Potsdam, a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research in London, and a member of the Council of Fellows of the Goree Institute in Senegal, of the International Advisory Board of the Graduate School of North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin, and of the board of advisors of the Center for Public Theology at the University of Western Ontario. A member of the advisory board of Eurozine, the European network of cultural journals, and the author of more than thirty papers published in academic journals or as chapters in volumes of collected works, she writes regularly for newspapers and magazines in Europe and the United States. She is the co-editor (with Matthias Kross) of a collection of essays on luck and happiness, Zum Glück (2004) and of two forthcoming volumes, (with Iris Nachum) Margherita von Brentano: Gesammelte Schriften (2010) and (with Trip McCrossin) Evil in Modern Thought: A Reader (2011). Dr. Neiman is also the author of five other books, including four in English: Slow Fire: Jewish Notes from Berlin (1992), which won a PEN-American Center Citation for a Distinguished First Work of Nonfiction; The Unity of Reason: Rereading Kant (1994); and Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (2002), a study for which she received an American Association of Publishers Scholarly and Professional Award for Philosophy and an American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence and which was translated into nine languages. Her most recent book, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grownup Idealists, published by Harcourt, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2008.