Michael Ward is Associate Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford and Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University.  He is the author of the best-selling and award-winning Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis and of After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man.  Described by Biblical theologian Tom Wright as “the foremost living Lewis scholar,” Dr Ward is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis and on fiftieth anniversary of Lewis’s death unveiled a permanent national memorial to him in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, London.