One of Britain's foremost constitutional experts, chairing Don't Vote for AV, an Intelligence Squared live debate, April 2011, Cadogan Hall

Vernon Bogdanor

Research Professor, King's College, London and author of the forthcoming The Coalition and the Constitution

Vernon Bogdanor CBE is Research Professor at the Institute of Contemporary History, King’s College, London. He was formerly for many years Professor of Government at Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences. He has been an adviser to a number of governments, including those of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Israel and Slovakia. His books include The People and the Party System: The Referendum and Electoral Reform in British Politics; Multi-Party Politics and the Constitution; Power and the People: A Guide to Constitutional Reform and Devolution in the United Kingdom.

His book The New British Constitution was published in 2009. He is also editor of, amongst other books, The British Constitution in the 20th Century; Joined-Up Government; and, in March, 2010, From the New Jerusalem to New Labour, essays on British Prime Ministers from Attlee to Blair. His latest book, The Coalition and the Constitution, will be published in April 2011. He is a frequent contributor to TV, radio and the press. In 2008, he was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin Award by the Political Studies Association for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies. In 2009 he was made a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur by President Sarkozy. He is an Honorary Fellow of The Queen’s College, Oxford, an Honorary D. Litt. of the University of Kent, and an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple.