Daniele Archibugi is a Research Director at the Italian National Research Council (CNR-IRPPS) in Rome, and Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at the University of London, Birkbeck College. He works on innovation and on the political theory of international relations. He has graduated at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and taken his D.Phil. at the University of Sussex. He has worked and taught at the Universities of Sussex, Naples, Madrid, Cambridge and Rome. In the academic year 2003-2004 he has been Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, affiliated at the Department of Government and at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, and in the academic year 2004-2005 Lauro de Bosis Visiting Professor at Harvard University, affiliated at the Department of Government and at the Minda de Gunzeberg Center for European Studies. In June 2006 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Sussex.

He is an adviser to the European Union, the OECD, several UN agencies and various national governments. He has led many research projects for the European Commission and other international organisations. He has chaired the European Expert Group on international cooperation in science and technology, A Wide Opening of the European Research Area to the World (released in April 2008).

He is the author of several books and more than 150 articles in refereed journals. In the field of political theory he has co-edited Cosmopolitan Democracy (Polity Press, 1995), Global Democracy (special issue of “Peace Review, 1997), Re-imagining Political Community (Polity Press, 1998), Filosofi per la pace (Editori Riuniti, 1999), and has edited Debating Cosmopolitics (Verso, 2003). His latest book, A Global Commonwealth of Citizens. Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy, will be published by Princeton University Press in October 2008.