Dinesh D'Souza, President of King's College

In the fall of 2010, Dinesh D’Souza was named President of The King’s College, a Christian college located in the Empire State Building in New York City. The mission of The King’s College is to transform society by educating students so that they are prepared to shape and lead the strategic institutions in this country. D’Souza brings to King’s a distinguished 25-year career as a writer, scholar, and intellectual. A former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, D’Souza also served as an Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and as a Rishwain Scholar at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. Called one of the “top young public-policy makers in the country” by Investor’s Business Daily, D’Souza quickly became a major influence on public policy through his writings. Illiberal Education, his first book, publicized the phenomenon of political correctness in America’s colleges and universities and was on the best-seller list for 15 weeks. Subsequent best-sellers include Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, The Virtue of Prosperity, Finding Values in an Age of Techno Affluence, What’s So Great About America, Letters to a Young Conservative, and What’s So Great About Christianity. His most recent book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, published in October 2010, has been described as the most influential political book of the year and has proven to be yet another best-seller. A prolific writer, persuasive debater, and sought-after speaker on college campuses and many other venues, Dinesh has been named one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers by The New York Times Magazine.