Simon Polinder is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of History of International Relations at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is associated with the project Reimagining Religion, Security and Social Transformation. His research is on religious leaders and their response to violent extremism in Kenya and Nigeria. He is the co-editor of the volume Christian Faith, Philosophy and International Relations: The Lamb and the Wolf (2019). His dissertation received an Honorable Mention for the Mark Juergensmeyer Best Dissertation Award 2023. In 2024 he published Towards a New Christian Political Realism. The Amsterdam School of Philosophy and the Role of Religion in International Relations.