Anna Elisabetta Galeotti is Full Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli. She studied at the University of Pavia, member of Collegio Ghislieri, was visiting scholar at Cambridge, and Jean Monnet fellow at the European University Institute. She has spent several years doing research as fellow of various academic institutions, such as the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs of the University of Saint Andrews, and the E.Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

Her research interests range from the methodology of the social science, to toleration, multiculturalism, equal respect and self-deception. She has written several books and essays, among which are Toleration as Recognition (Cambridge University Press 2002), Toleration, Identity and Difference, in The Oxford Hanbook of Political Theory (2006) and Relativism, Universalism, and Applied Ethics: The Case of Female Circumcision.