Willem B. Drees is professor emeritus of philosophy of religion, Leiden University, and of philosophy of the humanities, Tilburg University. Since 2013, he serves as the academic secretary for the humanities and social sciences of the Royal Holland Society for the Sciences and Humanities (KHMW), the oldest academic society in the Netherlands, founded in 1752.

He has been the editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science (2008-2018) en president of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology. Among his publications are: What Are the Humanities For? (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Religion and Science in Context: A Guide to the Debates (2010), Religion, Science and Naturalism (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and edited volumes such as Is Nature Ever Evil? Religion, Science and Value (Routledge 2003), The Study of Religion and the Training of Muslim Clergy in Europe: Academic and Religious Freedom in the 21st Century (with P.S. van Koningsveld; Leiden University Press, 2008) and Technology, Trust, and Religion: Roles of Religion in Controversies on Ecology and the Modification of Life (Leiden University Press, 2009). For more information: www.drees.nl.