附主讲人介绍：

Jan Aart Scholte

Jan Aart Scholte is Professor in PAIS and Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) at the University of Warwick. He also holds a part-time appointment as Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Before coming to Warwick in 1999, he worked at the University of Sussex, Brighton and the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Jan Aart has also held visiting positions at Cornell University, the London School of Economics, the International Monetary Fund, the Moscow State University and Gothenburg University.

Jan Aart is author of Globalization: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005 second edition), Civil Society and Global Democracy (Polity, forthcoming) and International Relations of Social Change (Open University Press, 1993); co-author of Contesting Global Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2000); editor of Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance (forthcoming) and Civil Society and Global Finance (Routledge, 2002); and co-editor of The Encyclopaedia of Globalization (Routledge, 2006); as well as author of some 100 articles, chapters and working papers. He is also an editor of the journal Global Governance.

Jan Aart's current research focuses on questions of governing a more global world, with particular emphasis on democracy in this context. In 2008-11 he is coordinating a major international project on 'Building Global Democracy', with a large grant from the Ford Foundation, together with co-conveners in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. The project will generate half a dozen volumes on subjects such as civic education for global democracy, including the excluded in global policymaking, and intercultural constructions of legitimate global governance.

Among other positions Jan Aart is a member of the Steering Committee of the Globalization Studies Network and serves on the advisory boards of various institutes and programmes in global(isation) and regional(isation) studies.