Professor of Political Philosophy, Harvard University. Books include The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good?; Democracy's Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times; What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets; Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?; and The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering. Course "Justice", the first Harvard course made available online and on television, has been viewed by tens of millions. Host, BBC programme "The Global Philosopher” with debates on ethical issues with participants from around the world. Recipient of honours and awards, including: Spain's Princess of Asturias Prize (Social Sciences); named China's most influential foreign figure of the year, China Newsweek; named most popular professor in the world, Die Zeit.