Mogens H. Hansen, born in Frederiksberg, Denmark in 1940, is a classical philologist specializing in the Athenian city-states and democracy. He studied at the University of Copenhagen, where he later became Professor of Classical Literature. In 1984, his work on the Athenian Assembly was selected as the topic for Norman Baynes' annual meeting of ancient British historians. He was a visiting professor at the University of Melbourne in 1988 and at Green College, University of British Columbia, in 2001. From 1993 to 2005, he was director of the Copenhagen Polis Centre. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, Princeton University, and Churchill College. He is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the British Academy, and the German Archaeological Institute. He has been invited to lecture at prestigious universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, University College London, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, the Sorbonne, Berlin, Munich, Milan, and Leiden. In addition to numerous academic publications, he has published twelve monographs, seven booklets, one hundred and twenty-four articles, and eight review articles. The culmination of his study of Athenian institutions is Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes (1991), translated into five languages.