Stephen Meyer is a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute, a public policy and scientific research organization in Seattle in the United States. There he directs the institute’s Center for Science and Culture and also contributes to its foreign policy programs, where he writes on missile defense and the importance of strengthening key U.S. alliances. Meyer earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1991. In 1989 while finishing his Ph.D., he advocated a U.K-U.S. free trade agreement on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal as a way of relieving pressure on Britain to relinquish sovereignty to the EU. Since then he has written numerous articles urging U.S. policymakers to support British efforts to reclaim sovereignty from the EU and on the need to strengthen the crucially important Anglo-American defence, intelligence sharing and trading alliance. His articles on these topics have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Stream, The Federalist and National Review. He has published many other editorials in national newspapers such as USA Today, The National Post (of Canada), The Daily Telegraph and The Los Angeles Times. His 2009 book Signature in the Cell was selected as a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year.