Lea Ypi

1979–

Lea Ypi is an Albanian-born political philosopher, born in Tirana in 1979. She studied philosophy and then literature at Sapienza University of Rome and completed a doctorate in political theory at the European University Institute in 2008, before a postdoctoral fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford. She is the Ralph Miliband Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Her memoir Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (2021), about growing up as communist Albania collapsed, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and won the Ondaatje Prize. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2024.

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