Robert A. Hinde is Emeritus Professor of Ethology at the University of Cambridge, and former Master of St. John's College, Cambridge.
He is Chair of the British Pugwash Group (an organization set up in the 1950s to urge for greater social responsibility in science), President of the Movement for the Abolition of War, Fellow of the Royal Society, Honorary Fellow of the British Academy, Honorary Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His academic career spans ethology, primatology, and developmental and social psychology, and his most recent books include <i>War No More</i> (2003, with Joseph Rotblat); <i>Why good is good</i> (2002); and <i>Why Gods Persist: A Scientific Approach to Religion</i> (1999).