Email: l.l.ypi@lse.ac.uk (academic only) | ssheldon@wylieagency.co.uk (all other enquiries)

Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a PhD from the European University Institute and was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. She is the author of Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency, The Meaning of Partisanship (with Jonathan White), The Architectonic of Reason, and Free: Coming of Age at the End of History which has been translated into thirty-five languages. Her academic work has been recognised with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and a Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement. She is a fellow of the British Academy, of Academia Europea and of the Albanian Academy of Sciences.