Professor of Political Theory UCLInternational Panel on Social Progress
Professor Cécile Laborde is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of London (UCL). She is the Director of UCL's Religion and Political Theory Centre. She holds a DPhil from Oxford University. She joined UCL in April 2003. In 2007, she was elected Associate Professor to the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She spent the 2010-11 academic year in Princeton, as a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study. She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2013. She has published widely on theories of law and the state and on contemporary theories of nationalism, toleration, republicanism, multiculturalism, secularism and global justice. Her last book is Critical Republicanism. The Hijab Controversy and Political Theory (Oxford 2008). She is currently finishing a book on religion and political philosophy for Harvard University Press.
She has served on the Steering Committee of the International Panel for Social Progress (IPSP) since it was set up in 2014. The IPSP brings together hundreds of high-profile academics from around the world – sociologists, economists, demographers, historians, political scientists, anthropologists.. – who are working to produce an international report in 2017. The report aims to bring cutting edge academic knowledge to bear on indicators of, and prospects for, social progress globally. The areas covered by the report include many areas close to the Skoll’s Foundation’s core interests, from education to health, from development to global justice.