Who is Arif Ahmed? Rishi Sunak appoints new 'free-speech tsar' to crack down on cancel culture

Arif Ahmed, a philosophy professor at the University of Cambridge, has been named as the UK’s first ever director of freedom of speech and academic freedom poppyeh reports

Arif Ahmed, a philosophy professor at the University of Cambridge, will be handed new powers to enshrine freedom of speech on campus.

Professor Ahmed will also sit on the board of the Office for Students, the higher education regulator in England, and advise them on sanctions for universities and student unions that fail to comply with their duties, including potential fines.passed into law last month. It will establish a new free speech complaints system and strengthen the legal responsibility of universities to protect the rights of students, staff and visiting speakers.

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