Bhikhu Parekh is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. He has been a Visiting Professor at several universities including the University of British Colombia, McGill University, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several widely acclaimed books in political philosophy, and his latest book Rethinking Multiculturalism was published by the Harvard University Press in September this year.
Professor Parekh is also active in British political life. He was Deputy Chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, and is currently Chair of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain whose report on the state of race relations in Britain was published last month. He received the BBC's Special Lifetime Achievement Award in November 1999, and was appointed to the House of Lords in March this year.
