Jeremy Weate

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{{Short description|British philosopher}}

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Jeremy Weate (born in September 1969 in Wheaton Aston) studied philosophy at the University of Hull, the University of Liège and the University of Warwick, graduating with a PhD in European philosophy from Warwick in 1998. His PhD thesis was [http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2472/ Phenomenology and Difference: the Body, Architecture and Race.]

Weate is the author of the children's book A Young Person's Guide to Philosophy,{{Cite book|title=A Young Person's Guide to Philosophy|last=results|first=search|date=1998-08-13|publisher=Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd|others=Peter Lawman|isbn=9780751357790|location=London|language=English}} which was published by Dorling Kindersley in 1998 and translated into 9 languages.

After completing his PhD, Weate became an international development consultant, focusing on transparency, accountability and good governance in the extractive industries. He has worked in over twenty-five countries across Africa and Asia on projects related to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative,{{Cite web|url=https://eiti.org/|title=Homepage {{!}} Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative|website=eiti.org|access-date=2018-06-03}} policy and legal frameworks as well as political economy analyses.

During his time living in Nigeria, Weate worked closely with Dele Olojede to set up NEXT, a pioneering newspaper that aimed to raise standards in Nigerian journalism and challenge vested interests. Weate also co-founded Cassava Republic Press with Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, one of the most influential publishing companies in Africa.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/sep/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview|title='What took you so long?'|last=Evans|first=Diana|date=2006-09-01|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-06-03}} He has also written a number of articles about African literature.{{Cite news|url=http://africanarguments.org/2013/02/11/situation-is-critical-bringing-african-writing-back-home-by-jeremy-weate/|title=Situation is Critical! Bringing African writing back home – By Jeremy Weate - African Arguments|date=2013-02-11|work=African Arguments|access-date=2018-06-03|language=en-GB}}

After fifteen years as an international development consultant, Weate switched careers and now runs an ibogaine-assisted retreat centre - Tabula Rasa Retreat - in Portugal. He is also Executive Director of the [https://www.ibogainealliance.org/ Global Ibogaine Therapy Alliance] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125093313/http://www.ibogainealliance.org/ |date=25 January 2016 }}. Weate was featured in a December 2017 article on ibogaine in The Observer{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/10/ibogaine-heroin-addiction-treatment-gabon-withdrawal-danger-death|title=Dying to get clean: is ibogaine the answer to heroin addiction?|last=Hannaford|first=Alex|date=2017-12-10|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-06-03}} and was one of the organisers of the European Ibogaine Forum in Vienna in 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://iboga.info/|title=entheo-science - lets talk about psychedelics|website=European Ibogaine Forum|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-03}}

He is also a keen film-maker, currently working on two projects - one about an abandoned airfield near Wheaton Aston,{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/user541880|title=Jeremy Weate|website=Vimeo|language=en|access-date=2018-06-03}} and the other a documentary about ibogaine - The Ibogaine Stories.{{Cite web|url=https://theibogainestories.com/|title=Home|website=The Ibogaine Stories-Film|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-03}}