Peter McKnight

Peter McKnight is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the Vancouver Sun, a legal analyst for Global National, and an adjunct professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. A former lawyer, parole officer and hospital board chair, he holds an undergraduate degree in psychology, and advanced degrees in law, philosophy of science and journalism.

McKnight writes and speaks on a wide variety of subjects, including law and justice issues, science, social science, philosophy, religion and ethics. His work has appeared in most major North American newspapers and has been discussed during debates in the House of Commons and the Senate of Canada.

McKnight has received numerous awards for his work and was named 2007 Commentator of the Year by the Jack Webster Foundation. He also received the 2007 Jack Webster award for excellence in legal journalism and the 2006 Justicia Award for excellence in legal journalism from the Canadian Bar Association, the Law Foundation of Canada and the Department of Justice, Canada.

In 2007, McKnight became the first and only Canadian named a Templeton-Cambridge Fellow in Science and Religion at the University of Cambridge. He was also a Knight Science Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004.

A popular speaker, McKnight has lectured at numerous conferences and many major universities, including the universities of British Columbia, Cambridge, Toronto, Western Ontario and Simon Fraser University.