Martin Albrow
Martin Albrow is a British sociologist
who has held professorships in Cardiff, Munich, Cambridge, and the
London School of Economics and is currently at the University of Surrey
Roehampton, England. He was founding editor of the journal International
Sociology. He has written six books including The Global Age
(1996, awarded the 1997 European Amalfi Prize) and Sociology:
The Basics (1999). In 2000 he was a consultant to the OECD on
the future of governance in a diverse society. He is married to a
British government economist, Susan Owen, and they have a nine-year-old
son, Thomas. They have relatives in Stratford, Ontario.
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