Arjun Appadurai

Socio-cultural anthropologist and recognised theorist on globalisation, cities, design and social violence. He is a publisher and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, and Emeritus Professor at New York University. During his academic career he has held various professorial chairs and served as an Adviser to the UN, UNESCO, the World Bank, the Guggenheim Museum, the Foreign Ministry of Germany and other public and private organisations. In 2021, he was awarded the Presidential Prize from the American Anthropological Association.