Martin Albrow FAcSS is founding and past Honorary President of the Global China Academy (2012-2021), UK; non-resident Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Studies 'Law as Culture', Bonn University, Germany. He became Emeritus Professor at the University of Wales in 1989 and has held senior visiting positions at various institutions across the world. He is a former President of the British Sociological Association. He was editor of the journal Sociology and founding editor of International Sociology. His The Global Age: State and Society beyond Modernity (1996) won the European Amalfi Prize in 1997.