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Biographies

Ben Barber

Benjamin R. Barber is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos (U.S.), president of the Interdependence Movement, and Walt Whitman Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University. Dr. Barber is the author of 17 books, including the classic Strong Democracy, the international best-seller Jihad vs. McWorld and most recently, Consumed. Dr. Barber appears frequently in broadcast media and domestic and international news publications, and he consults regularly with political and civic leaders in the U.S. (President Bill Clinton, Governor Howard Dean) and around the world (Germany, U.K., Italy, Libya, Finland). He writes and speaks on a wide variety of questions connected to democracy and citizenship, including the arts, education, globalization, terrorism, and the new politics of the Middle East and North Africa.

Rajeev Bhargava

Rajeev Bhargava, B.A.(Delhi), M.Phil, D.Phil (Oxford), is Senior Fellow and Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. He was formerly Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and between 2001 and 2005, Professor of Political theory and Head of the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. He has held visiting fellowships at Harvard, Columbia, Jerusalem, Bristol and Paris. He is on the advisory board of several institutions and programmes and was a consultant to the UNDP report on cultural liberty.

His publications include Individualism in Social Science, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992,) Secularism and its Critics ed. (OUP, New Delhi, 1998), What is Political Theory and Why do we need it? (OUP, Delhi, 2010) and The Promise of India's secular democracy (OUP, Delhi, 2010)

Madeleine Bunting

Madeleine Bunting is a Guardian columnist and associate editor. She writes on a wide range of subjects including politics, work, Islam, science and ethics, development, women's issues and social change.

Joseph Carens

Joseph H. Carens is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Immigrants and the Right to Stay (MIT 2010) and Culture, Citizenship and Community: A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness (OUP: 2000) as well as three other books and more than 70 articles or book chapters. He is currently writing a book on the ethics of immigration, tentatively titled Who Belongs? Immigration, Democracy and Citizenship. Mark Carroll

Mark Carroll is the DCLG Director responsible for Decentralisation and Big Society. This includes the Government’s work on race equality and integration and its relationship with faith communities.

Previously he established the Department’s Programme Team, a flexible pool of analytical and policy staff who work on Ministers’ key strategic priorities following the election. In this role he was a member of the Department’s Executive Board.

Mark was from 2002 until November 2007, the Director in HM Government responsible the government’s strategies for tackling extremism, building community cohesion and integration, and for increasing race equality. From October 2005 to September 2006 Mark was also a member of the main Home Office Group Management Board and the Acting Director General for Communities which in addition to the responsibilities outlined above, also included the Governments responsibilities for: the third sector; volunteering; new charity legislation; increasing community participation and empowerment.

Before joining the Civil Service Mark worked in consultancy and prior to this he worked in the third sector and in local government.

John Dunn

John Dunn studied history at King’s College, Cambridge and was Harkness Fellow at Harvard. He has been a Fellow of King’s since 1966 and was Professor of Political Theory in Cambridge University from 1987 to 2007. Fascinated and dismayed by the vagaries of political fate across the modern world since childhood experiences in Occupied Germany, Iran, and India, his books include The Political Thought of John Locke(1969), Modern Revolutions(2nd ed 1989), Dependence and Opportunity:political change in Ahafo(1973) (with A.F.Robertson), Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future(2nd ed 1993), The Politics of Socialism(1984), Locke(1984), Rethinking Modern Political Theory(1985), Interpreting Political Responsibility(1990), The History of Political Theory(1996), The Cunning of Unreason:making sense of politics(2000) and Setting the People Free(2005). Visiting professor at Universities in Ghana, India, Japan, Canada, Italy, and the United States (Tulane, the University of Minnesota, and twice at Yale), he is a Fellow of the British Academy, chairing its Political Studies Section from 1994 to 1997, and serving on its Council for three years, an Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is especially interested in the politics of Japan and Korea, and was a Consultant to the Kim Dae-Jung Peace Foundation.

Catherine Fiaschi

Catherine Fiaschi is the Director of Counterpoint, the British Council's think-tank and a visiting scholar at St Antony's College, Oxford. She is interested in how citizens, institutions and organisations create new forms of social and political resilience in the face of change. Andrew Gamble

Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics, a Fellow of Queens’ College and Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is joint editor of The Political Quarterly and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published widely on British politics, public policy, and political economy. In 2005 he was awarded the PSA Isaiah Berlin prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies. His books include Between Europe and America: the future of British politics (2003) and The Spectre at the Feast: capitalist crisis and the politics of recession (2009)

Anthony Giddens

Anthony Giddens is a Fellow of King’s College Cambridge and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics. He was Director of the LSE from 1997 to 2003, and was made a member of the House of Lords in 2004. Lord Giddens has honorary degrees or comparable awards from 21 universities. In 1984 he co-founded the publishing house Polity Press, which today produces 150 titles a year. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Russian Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was the BBC Reith Lecturer in 1999, and was awarded the ‘Spanish Nobel Prize’, the Prince of Asturias Award, in 2002. His textbook Sociology has sold over a million copies. According to Google Scholar, Anthony Giddens is the most widely cited sociologist in the world. His many books include The Constitution of Society, Modernity and Self-Identity, Beyond Left and Right, The Third Way and Europe in the Global Age. His most recent major work is The Politics of Climate Change. His books have been translated into more than forty languages.

David Goodhart

David Goodhart is the founder and editor of Prospect magazine, a London-based current affairs monthly launched in 1995.

Peter Jones

Peter Jones is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Newcastle. He is the author of Rights (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994) and editor of National Rights, International Obligations (Boulder: Westview, 1996), Human Rights and Global Diversity (London: Frank Cass, 2001), and Group Rights (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009). Most of his published work has appeared in academic journals and edited collections and ranges over a variety of subjects, including cultural diversity, toleration, recognition, freedom of belief and expression, value pluralism, political equality, distributive justice, global justice, democracy and liberalism.

Omar Kahn

Omar Kahn is Runnymede's head of policy research and, among other projects, leads the financial inclusion programme. Omar sits on the Department for Work and Pensions' Ethnic Minority Advisory Group.Omar's other advisory positions include Olmec (a social enterprise), the 2011 Census, the Household Longitudinal Survey, the Electoral Reform Society, the Payments Council, and as the UK representative on the European Commission’s Socio-economic network of experts. Omar is the author of Financial Inclusion and Ethnicity; Who Pays to Access Cash?; Why Do Assets Matter?; and The Costs of ‘Returning’ Home Omar has also published many articles and reports on political theory and British political history for Runnymede over the past eight years and has spoken on topics including multiculturalism, integration, socio-economic disadvantage, and positive action. These include giving evidence to the UN High Commission for Human Rights in Geneva, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, at academic conferences in Manchester, Oxford, Paris, and Warsaw, the CRE Race Convention, the Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights, a Treasury/DFID conference on remittances, St George’s House (Windsor Castle), Wilton Park, and many other engagements in the UK and Europe. Omar completed his DPhil in Political Theory from the University of Oxford, a Masters in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and a Masters in South Asian Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly is Professor of Political Theory at LSE and Head of the Government Department where he has taught since 1995. He previously held research and teaching posts at the University of Chicago Law School, University College London and the University of Wales at Swansea. He is author editor and co-editor of eleven books including Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice (Oxford 1990), Liberalism (Polity 2004) and Locke’s Second Treatise (Continuum 2007) and British Political Theory in the Twentieth Century (Blackwell-Wiley 2010) as well as articles and book chapters on political ethics constitutionalism, justice, multiculturalism, and British political ideas. He was joint editor of Political Studies between 1999-2005 and of Utilitas between 2006-2011.

Chandran Kukathas

Chandran Kukathas completed his BA in History and Political Science at the Australian National University and his MA in Politics at the University of New South Wales before going on to a DPhil in Politics at Oxford University. He has taught at the Royal Military College, Canberra; Oxford; the Australian National University; the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy; and the University of Utah, where he held the Neal Maxwell Chair in Political Theory in the Department of Political Science.

Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Southampton. He has held posts at the Universities of St Andrews, Hull, and Reading. He is currently the holder of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, working on a book entitled Living Together as Equals: The Demands of Citizenship, which is to be published by Oxford University Press in 2012. This book explores some different theories of citizenship and their implications for a range of duties that citizens might be thought to be under. He is also the author of Levelling the Playing Field (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Community, Solidarity and Belonging (Cambridge University Press, 2000). Sue Mendus

Sue Mendus is Professor of Political Philosophy and a member of the Morrell Centre for Toleration at the University of York. Her main research interests are in modern and historical political philosophy, especially liberalism and theories of toleration. Her recent publications include: Religious Toleration in an Age of Terrorism (ANU, 2008), and Politics and Morality (Polity, 2009). She is currently working on three projects: problems of religious toleration; privacy in public life; and theories of democracy. From 2011 to 2012 she is Vice President (Social Sciences) of the British Academy.

David Miller

David Miller is Professor of Political Theory in the University of Oxford and an Official Fellow of Nuffield College. Educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge (M.A.) and Balliol College, Oxford (M. Phil, D. Phil) he taught at the universities of Lancaster and East Anglia before taking up his present post in 1979. He became a Fellow of the British Academy in 2002. He has a long-standing interest in questions of social justice (Social Justice(1976), Principles of Social Justice (1999)); engagement with multiculturalism arose through work on national identity (On Nationality (1995), Citizenship and National Identity (2000)). Recently, he has written on global justice, territorial rights and immigration (National Responsibility and Global Justice (2007)), and plans to do further work on immigrant admission and integration in the year ahead.

Tariq Modood

Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. His recent publications include Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea (2007) and Still Not Easy Being British: Struggles for a Multicultural Citizenship (2010); and as co-editor, Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship (2009) and Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness (2011). He is a regular contributor to the media and policy debates in Britain, was awarded a MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in 2001 and elected a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2004. He served on the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, the IPPR Commission on National Security and on the National Equality Panel, which reported to the UK Deputy Prime Minister in 2010.

Monika Mookherjee

Monica Mookherjee is a Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Keele University. Her major research interests lie in issues of multiculturalism, toleration, human rights, and the politics of recognition, reparation and reconciliation. She is particularly interested in feminist approaches to these issues. Her major contribution, Women’s Rights as Multicultural Claims: Reconfiguring Gender and Diversity in Political Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), explores the intersection and tensions between feminism and multiculturalism in contemporary political theory. She is the editor of the volume Democracy, Religious Pluralism and the Liberal Dilemma of Accommodation (Springer, 2010). Dr Mookherjee has also written a number of journal articles for Res Publica, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Ethnicities and Feminist Theory. Current projects include a monograph on value pluralism, multiculturalism and reconciliation.

Bhikhu Parekh

Educated at the Universities of Bombay and London, Lord Bhikhu Parekh is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Academy of the Learned Societies for Social Sciences and a Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Westminster. Lord Parekh was chair of the Runnymede Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain (1998-2000), whose report, The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, was published in 2000. He is vice- chairman of the Gandhi Foundation, a trustee of the Anne Frank Educational Trust, and a member of the National Commission on Equal Opportunity. His main academic interests include political philosophy, the history of political thought, social theory, ancient and modern Indian political thought, and the philosophy of ethnic relations. Professor Parekh is the author of Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory (2000); Gandhi (2001); Colonialism, Tradition and Reform (1999); Gandhi's Political Philosophy (1989); Contemporary Political Thinkers (1982); Karl Marx's Theory of Ideology (1981); and Hannah Arendt and the Search for a New Political Philosophy (1981).

Anne Philips

Anne Phillips is Professor of Political and Gender Theory at the London School of Economics, and holds a joint appointment between the Gender Institute and the Government Department. Her research interests cover normative and feminist political theory, particularly issues of democracy, representation, equality, difference, and multiculturalism. Her publications include Gender and Culture (2010), Multiculturalism without Culture (2007), Which Equalities Matter? (1999), The Politics of Presence: the Political Representation of Gender, Ethnicity and Race (1995), and Engendering Democracy (1991). She also edited, with John Dryzek and Bonnie Honig, the Oxford Handbook of Political Theory (2006). She is currently working on a book on Body Property.

Raymond Plant

Professor Raymond Plant joined the Law School at Kings College London in January 2002 as Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy. He was previously Master of St. Catherine's College Oxford from 1994 -2000 and before that, Professor of European Political Thought at the University of Southampton. He is a Labour Peer and sits in the House of Lords with the title of Lord Plant of Highfield. In the Lords he is a member of the Joint Committee on HumanRights and has been a member of the Government and Law Sub Committee of the Committee on the European Communities. He has given quite a few lecture series at a range of universities: The Agnes Cumming Lectures at University College Dublin; the Sarum Lectures at Oxford University; The Stanton Lectures (twice) at Cambridge University; the fFerguson Lectures at Manchester University; the Scott Holland Lectures at Manchester University; The Stevenson Lectures at Glasgow University. In 2006 he will give the Boutwood Lectures in Cambridge on "The Neo Liberal State and the Rule of Law" and in 2007 the Bampton Lectures at Oxford University on Religion,Citizenship and Liberal Pluralism. In 2005 he is to give the G.Ganz Lecture at Southampton University on "Reflections on the Rule of Law in the UK". He is a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. He is a Fellow of St Catherine's College Oxford; of Harris Manchester College Oxford and in 2006 of Corpus Christi College Cambridge.

Ziauddin Sardar

Ziauddin Sardar, writer, broadcaster and cultural critic, is Visiting Professor, the School of Arts, the City University. Considered a pioneering writer on Islam and contemporary cultural issues, he is listed on Prospect Magazine's 'Britain's Top 100 Public Intellectuals' and has been described by the Independent as 'Britain's own Muslim polymath'. He is the author of some fifty books, Postmodernism and the Other (1998), Orientalism (1999), and the international bestseller Why Do People Hate America? (2002). A collection of his writings is available as Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures: A Ziauddin Sardar Reader (2003) and How Do You Know?: Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural Relations (2006). His two volumes of autobiographies, Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim and Balti Britain: A Provocative Journey Through Asian Britain, have received wide acclaim. Reading the Qur'an, based on his Guardian project 'blogging the Qur'an' has just been published. He has worked as a science journalist for Nature and New Scientist, as reporter form London Weekend Television and Channel 4 and has made numerous television and radio programmes for the BBC, including 'Battle for Islam'. He co-edited the prestigious critical arts journal Third Text from 1996 to 2006, served as a Commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission from 2006 to 2009 and as a member of the National Security Forum from 2008 to 2010, and was a columnist on the New Statesman for over ten years. Currently, he is the editor of Futures, the monthly journal of policy, planning and futures studies and the Chair of the Muslim Institute. He is widely known as a public intellectual and appears frequently on radio and television.

Charles Taylor

One of the most important thinkers Canada has produced, Charles Taylor (BA ‘52) is that rare philosopher who attempts to put his ideas into practice. His writings have been translated into 20 languages, and have covered a range of subjects that include artificial intelligence, language, social behaviour, morality and multiculturalism. A pupil of Isaiah Berlin at Oxford, Taylor taught at McGill from 1961 to 1997, and is now a professor emeritus. A public intellectual, Taylor never hesitated to make his ideas known - he ran in three federal elections, most famously against Pierre Trudeau in 1965. Sources of the Self, his 1989 book, achieved a wide general readership. His former mentor, Isaiah Berlin, said of him, “whatever one may think of his central beliefs, [they] cannot fail to broaden the outlook of anyone who reads his works or listens to his lectures or, indeed, talks to him.”

Varun Uberoi

Varun Uberoi is Lecturer in Political theory and Public Policy at Brunel University. He did his undergraduate degree at the University of Manchester and his doctorate at the University of Oxford. His research combines normative political theory and political science to examine the theory and practice of fostering unity amongst the culturally diversity citizens of modern polities. His theoretical work examines what unity amongst the citizens of a polity is, how it differs from similar ideas like loyalty and belonging, why such unity is important and how it can be fostered ethically. His empirical work utilises archival and elite interview data to examine how the governments of two parliamentary democracies, Britain and Canada, have attempted to foster such unity as well as the role that Muslims often play in contemporary debates about unity. He is a fellow of Bristol University’s Centre for Ethnicity and Citizenship and the University of Oxford’s Centre for Political Ideologies. His forthcoming monograph is called Nation-Building Through Multiculturalism and will be published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Albert Weale

Albert Weale is currently ESRC Professorial Fellow and Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy in the Department of Political Science, University College London. Between 1992 and 2009 he was a co-editor of the British Journal of Political Science. His research has concentrated on issues of political theory and public policy, especially the theory of justice and the theory of democracy, health policy and comparative environmental policy. His principal publications include Equality and Social Policy (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978), Political Theory and Social Policy (Macmillan, 1983), The New Politics of Pollution (Manchester University Press, 1992), Democracy (Macmillan, 1999 and 2007 revised), Democratic Citizenship and the European Union (Manchester University Press, 2005) and, with others, The Theory of Choice (Blackwell, 1992) and Environmental Governance in Europe (Oxford University Press, 2000) as well as a number of edited works and papers. He currently chairs the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and is a Vice-President of the British Academy.