Daniele Archibugi is an advisor of Democracy Without Borders, Professor at the Universitas Mercatorum, Rome and Professor of Innovation, Governance and Public Policy at the University of London, Birkbeck College. For several decades he has been a research director at the Italian National Research Council (CNR-IRPPS) in Rome, where he continued to lead projects. As an advocate of cosmopolitan democracy, together with David Held he has supported the creation of a directly elected world parliament and of other global institutions. He works on the political theory of international relations. He has worked at the Universities of Sussex, Cambridge, London School of Economics, Harvard and Rome LUISS. In the field of international political theory, he has advocated a cosmopolitan democracy (The Global Commonwealth of Citizens, 2008) and a greater involvement of transnational citizens to counter-balance the power of governments in world politics (Debating Cosmopolitics, 2003). His latest co-authored book is an assessment of the international criminal justice (Crime and Global Justice. The Dynamics of International Punishment, 2018).