David Held

Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science, Co-Director of LSE Global Governance and General Editor, Global Policy

London School of Economics

David Held is the Graham Wallas Chair in Political Science, and co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, at the London School of Economics. Among his most recent publications are Globalisation/Anti-Globalisation (2007), Models of Democracy (2006), Global Covenant (2004), Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture (1999), and Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance (1995). His main research interests include the study of globalisation, changing forms of democracy and the prospects of regional and global governance. He is a Director of Polity Press, which he co-founded in 1984.