David Lester

Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Stockton University

Biography

David Lester is a British-American psychologist, suicidologist, and emeritus professor of psychology at Stockton University. Lester received his BA from Cambridge University in 1964, and his M.A. from Brandeis University in psychology in 1966. Lester is known for researching suicide, and has been called "the world's pre-eminent suicide researcher." As of 2018, he has published over 100 books and 2,650 papers on this subject. His research has been published in at least 158 American journals and 47 foreign journals, with 74 colleagues in 34 countries.