Pierre Rosanvallon is an Emeritus Professor at the Collège de France where he held a chair in history and political theory. Some of his books translated into English include The demands of Liberty and The Society of Equals (Harvard University Press), Counter-Democracy: Politics in An Age of Distrust (Cambridge University Press), Democratic Legitimacy (Princeton University Press), The Century of Populism, and the upcoming Invisible Institutions (Polity Press). He also chairs the think tank La République des idées and the website La Vie des idées.