Joshua Rey is chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Southwark. He has worked as an investment banker in London and New York with J. P. Morgan and Co., then as an aid worker with Medair, serving in Afghanistan, Albania, and Sri Lanka. After this international experience he worked as director of the London Employer Coalition and Director of Strategy for the UK Commission on Employment and Skills, working on unemployment and skills policy in Whitehall. Following training at Cuddesdon, Oxford, he was ordained in 2012, serving as a Curate in Streatham before taking up his current appointment. He is the author of several articles on religion and the media.
