Professor at the Catholic Theological College, the University of Divinity, Melbourne, Professor of Philosophy and Theology, University of Notre Dame, Australia, Permanent Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology and Visiting Professor at the School of History and Philosophy, University of Latvia. He was Inaugural Crawford Miller Visiting Research Fellow at St. Cross College, Oxford and former Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University. He was Visiting Professor at the Wuhan University, China and the University of St. Thomas, USA. He is Editor of Analysis and Metaphysics, former Editor of Res Disputandae/Ethics Education, and an editorial consultant on a number of international refereed journals. He has interests in the metaphysics of Aquinas, Eastern philosophy, philosophy of education and applied ethics and has numerous publications in these areas. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Ukrainian and Chinese. He has also published in his native language, Latvian. His most recent publications include Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom (London: Routledge, 2019); Civil Society, Education and Human Formation (London: Routledge, 2017).