Steven Vertovec
Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Honorary Professor of Ethnology and Sociology, University of Göttingen, and Emeritus Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford. Previously he was Professor of Transnational Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS). His research interests surround international migration and transnationalism, social difference and patterns of diversity.
Prof. Vertovec is author of five books including Transnationalism (Routledge, 2009) and Super-diversity: Migration and Social Complexity (Routledge, 2023), and editor or co-editor of thirty-six volumes including Conceiving Cosmopolitanism (Oxford University Press, 2003), The Multiculturalism Backlash (Routledge 2010), the Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies (Routledge, 2015), Diversities Old and New (Palgrave, 2015), and the Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Prof. Vertovec has acted as expert or consultant for numerous agencies, including the UK Home Office and Department for International Development, British Council, the European Commission, the G8, World Bank and UNESCO.
