Participant Biographies

Daniel A. Bell

Daniel A. Bell

Director, Center for International and Comparative Political Theory, Tsinghua University
Session 5 - "Future of Democracy"

Professor Bell is Director of the Center for International and Comparative Political Theory at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is also professor of ethics and political philosophy at Tsinghua University. He was born in Montreal, educated at McGill and Oxford, has taught in Singapore and Hong Kong, and has held research fellowships at Princeton and Stanford. He has authored and co-edited fifteen books, including seven with Princeton University press and four with Cambridge University Press. He contributes frequently to leading media outlets in China and the West. His works have been translated in 23 languages.