Melissa Lane

Melissa Lane is University Senior Lecturer in History at Cambridge University, where she teaches political thought and history of ideas, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. She received an A.B. summa cum laude at Harvard University in Social Studies, and an MPhil and PhD in Philosophy from Cambridge. Her areas of research in political philosophy include security, compensation, authority, and accountability, as well as work on the political theory of international migration and of the role of corporations. Dr Lane has extensive experience in speaking about ethics, philosophy and history to executives and leaders in the public and private sectors, she has appeared on a number of television and radio broadcasts and has also published for a wider audience in the Times Literary Supplement and History Today. Her upcoming book is called Eco-Republic: Ancient Ethics and the Green Age.