John Anthony Sloboda OBE FBA (born 13 June 1950) is Research Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he currently leads research on the Social Impact of Making Music.
From 2005-2009 he was Executive Director of the Oxford Research Group, an NGO that sought to develop non-violent approaches to national and international security issues.
Until 2020 he was co-director of Every Casualty Worldwide, which works towards ensuring that all lives lost to armed conflict, anywhere in the world, are properly recorded.
[4] In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy to dual membership of both the Psychology and History of Music sections.
[6] He currently collaborates with the singer Rafael Montero, founder of the early music group El Parnaso Hyspano.