Alex Hochuli is an PhD student at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he is researching ethical consumerism. Alex was previously Institute of Ideas web editor and research assistant. He is a member of the Battle of Ideas committee and has previously produced debates on evolution, religion, new technologies, immigration and population. In early 2008, Alex co-produced the IoI & Bishopsgate Institute Secularism 2008 Series. Alex is a co-founder and organiser of the IoI Current Affairs Forum, established to bring together students, young professionals and others interested in investigating what politics means today.

Alex occasionally writes articles for spiked and reviews for Culture Wars and was on the editorial team of the Battles in Print 2007. Alex co-edited the Manifesto Club’s freedom blog, Speaking our mind, and was a regular guest on news discussion programme Up Front on internet TV channel 18 Doughty Street. He also occasionally judges rounds and writes Topic Guides for the Debating Matters Competition.

Alex has an MA in European Studies from King’s College London and a BSc in International Relations and History from the London School of Economics.