Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett currently serves as Senior Advisor to the United Nations on its Programme on Climate Change and Cities. He is Senior Fellow at the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at MIT. Over the course of the last five decades, he has written about social life in cities, changes in labour, and social theory. His last book Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2018.