Dorothy Byrne, FRTS (born 1953, Scotland),[1] serves as President of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, since 2021.

In 2019, Byrne delivered the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture[3] at the Edinburgh Television Festival in which she criticised politicians for lying and failing to be held to account.

[12] In a statement of December 2008, Byrne defended Channel 4's invitation to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President, to deliver the channel's "alternative Christmas message": "As the leader of one of the most powerful states in the Middle East, President Ahmadinejad's views are enormously influential.

[13] The Israeli Ambassador to the UK, Ron Prosor, said: "In Iran, converts to Christianity face the death penalty.

It is perverse that this despot is allowed to speculate on the views of Jesus, while his government leads Christ's followers to the gallows.