Lord Sacks served as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991–2013. Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge he pursued postgraduate studies at New College, Oxford, and King’s College London. The Chief Rabbi holds 15 honorary degrees, including a Doctor of Divinity conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2005 and made a Life Peer in 2009. He has written 24 books, a number of which have won literary awards. Rabbi Sacks currently serves as the Ingeborg and Ira Rennert Global Distinguished Professor of Judaic Thought at New York University and the Kressel and Efrat Family University Professor of Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University.