David Held

David Held was born in 1951 in Britain where he spent most of his childhood. He was educated in Britain, France, Germany and the United States. In the last five years he has lectured regularly on questions of democracy, international justice and globalization to audiences in many countries. Eighteen years ago David Held co-founded Polity, which is now a major presence in social science and humanities publishing. He is actually professor of political sciences on the London School of Economics and co-director of the Centre for the study of global governance of the LSE.

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