Arturo de Hoyos

Arturo de Hoyos is the "Grand Archivist and Grand Historian" of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, the world's largest Masonic organization, and is an executive staff member at the House of the Temple, in Washington, DC (the setting for Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol"), where he is director of the archives, library and museum. The author, editor, and translator of over 50 articles and books, he is considered America's foremost expert on Freemasonry. In 2000 he was one of three people invited to the Vatican by the Roman Catholic Church to discuss Freemasonry. He has been featured on CNN, ABC, NBC, DC's FOX 5 News, WAMU Radio's "Metro Connection," Voice of America, The History Channel; Interviewed by the New York Times, US News & World Report, El País, etc.