Sol Picciotto is emeritus professor of Lancaster University and has been Scientific Director of the IISL 2009-11. He went to university in Oxford and Chicago, has taught at Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Warwick and Lancaster (UK), and been a visiting fellow in Nagoya University and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. He has written widely on theories of state, law and economic regulation, and his most recent book is Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism (2011).