Elizabeth Oldfield

Since 2017 Elizabeth has hosted The Sacred, a podcast, events and visual content brand which creates space for a wide range of guests to reflect on their deepest values. There, she models courageous conversations across difference, and contributes to a growth in empathy.

For ten years she was Director of Theos, the UK’s leading religion and society think tank and today is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Larger Us, an organisation working to help change-makers bridge divides rather than deepening them, and transform relationships rather than defeat enemies.

She spent the first part of her career working across the BBC in television and radio, contributing to programmes including Beyond Belief and the Moral Maze, as well as Radio 3 and 4 documentaries.

Elizabeth is passionate about addressing the dearth of real wisdom in public life, building empathy across our deep differences and the way spirituality can help individuals and societies flourish. She has a masters in Theology and the Arts, reads a lot of poetry and detective fiction, likes to cycle, cook and garden and lives in an intentional Christian community in South London with her family.