Julian Bell is the UK’s leading expert on debate.

He is the author of the two standard textbooks for student debating, The Debating Book: everything you ever need to know about debating and Think Like A Debater: how to get better at debating.

His business Debating for Everyone offers consultancy and training in debating and public speaking; clients have included a crypto-currency firm, a trainee lawyer, a fine art dealer and a professor of economics. 

He has set up debating programmes in over 30 schools across the UK and abroad, and runs numerous debating competitions.

He is currently working on Debates That Changed the World (and what we can learn from them), a retelling and analysis of some of the most consequential debates in history.