Ronan McCrea is professor of constitutional and European law at University College London, where his work focuses on the future of the European Union and on the role of religion in law and politics. He has postgraduate degrees in law and comparative politics and has worked as a refugee lawyer, advisor to a judge of the European Court of Justice. He has acted pro-bono in cases before the European Courts in which the right to freedom of religion has clashed with the right to be free of discrimination on grounds of sex and sexual orientation.

He has published close to a hundred op-ed pieces over the years in The Irish Times, The Financial Times, Handelsblatt, The Irish Independent, Euronews, The Conversation and Aeon Magazine, covering themes ranging from the future of Europe and the decline in liberal values to Brexit, migration and the relationship between law and religion. He is an experienced commentator on radio and television and has appeared regularly on BBC, Sky News, RTE, France24 and various radio stations and had a monthly slot discussing international legal and political affairs on an Irish radio station. His Sky News interview on Brexit went viral and was viewed over 1.5 million times.