Samuel is Executive Co-Director of The Coexistence Trust and a research fellow in the Faiths & Civil Society unit at Goldsmiths University where he is academic advisor to the national Religious Literacy in Higher Education Leadership Programme.

Prior to his work with the Coexistence Trust, Samuel has been Community Director of the Saatchi Synagogue in London, Director of the ‘Champions of Change’ leadership initiative at the United Synagogue of Great Britain & The Commonwealth and lecturer in Community Development and Religion and Public Life at Westminster University and Birkbeck College respectively.

Samuel holds degrees in Theology and Religious Studies, History of Art, Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology and is currently studying Conflict Resolution & Meditation (MSc) at Birkbeck College, London.