Michael Freeden (London, 1944) is one of the leading contemporary theorists of ideologies. Since 2016 he has been an associate researcher in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of London, and previously he was Professor of Political Science at the Universities of Nottingham (2013-2015) and Oxford (1978-2011), where he co-founded and directed the Center for the Study of Political Ideologies and the Journal of Political Ideologies.

In addition to this work, he has written The New Liberalism (1978), Liberalism Divided (1986), JA Hobson (1988), Minutes of the Rainbow Circle 1894-1924 (1989), Rights (1991), Ideologies and Political Theory (1996 ), Ideology (2003), Liberal Languages (2005) and The Political Theory of Political Thinking (2013).

In 2012 he was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize from the British Political Studies Association and the Medal of Science from the University of Bologna.