Barry Buzan was Montague Burton Professor of international relations at the LSE until 2011. He is honorary professor at Copenhagen and Jilin Universities, and a Senior Fellow at LSE Ideas. From 1988 to 2002 he was Project Director at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI). From 1995 to 2002 he was research Professor of International Studies at the University of Westminster, and before that Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick. During 1993 he was visiting professor at the International University of Japan, and in 1997-8 he was Olof Palme Visiting Professor in Sweden.  He was Chairman of the British International Studies Association 1988-90, Vice-President of the (North American) International Studies Association 1993-4, and founding Secretary of the International Studies Coordinating Committee 1994-8. From 1999-2011 he was general coordinator of a project to reconvene the English school of International Relations, and from 2004-8 he was editor of the European Journal of International Relations. He took his first degree at the University of British Columbia (1968), and his doctorate at the London School of Economics (1973).  In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the British Academy, and in 2001 he was elected as an Academician of the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences. He has written, co-authored or edited over twenty books, written or co-authored more than one hundred articles and chapters, and lectured, broadcast or presented papers in over twenty countries.

His current research interests focus on:
1) International society, and the English school approach to International Relations;
2) International history and International Relations;
3) The conceptual and regional aspects of international security.