Lea Ypi is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the London School of Economics, holder of the Ralph Miliband Chair, and a Fellow of the British Academy. and a fellow of the British Academy. A native of Albania, she studied Philosophy and then Literature at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and was a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. She is the recipient of many prizes, including the Philip Leverhulme Prize for exceptional research achievement and the British Academy Brian Barry Prize for excellence in Political Science. Her last book, Free (2021), was awarded the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2021 and has been sold in more than 30 languages. She contributes regularly to The Guardian and Financial Times. Indignity (2025) is her latest book.