He currently serves as visiting scholar at the philosophy department of New York University and adjunct professor to NYU Gallatin School where he teaches democratic theory.

[1][2] Prior to that he was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs [3] and a visiting scholar at Harvard University.

[5] Görlach was born as the child of a Turkish mother and a German father in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

[26] Alexander Görlach is an honorary professor of ethics and theology[27] at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany.

[28] Today he serves as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times,[29] Neue Zürcher Zeitung,[30][31] and the South China Morning Post.