Nikolas Rose (London, 1947). Trained in biology, psychology and sociology. He was Director of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and later Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he headed the Department of Sociology between 2002 and 2006. He currently works as Senior Lecturer in Sociology at King's College London, He is also Director of the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine. Between 1970 and 1980 he co-founded two journals of great relevance for the introduction of French post-structuralist thought to anglophone audiences: Ideology and Consciousness (I & C) and Politics and Power. Between 1996 and 2004 he was Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious magazine Economy and Society, currently serving on its editorial board. His numerous books include: Governing the soul: The shaping of the private self (Routledge 1989 – Free Associations, 1999); Powers of freedom: Reframing political thought (Cambridge University Press, 1999); Governing the present: Administering economic, social and personal life (with Peter Miller, Polity Press, 2008); Politics of life. Biomedicine, power and subjectivity in the 21st century (UNIPE Editorial Universitaria, 2012); and Our psychiatric future: The politics of mental health (Polity Press, 2018).