Gareth Stedman Jones is Professor of Political Thought and Director of the Centre for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is the Cambridge Faculty Director of the Ariane de Rothschild Fellows Program and a Member of the Conseil Scientifique of the CNRS. Professor Stedman Jones has published numerous books and articles, including Outcast London (1971), Languages of Class (1983) and An End to Poverty? (2005), and wrote the introduction to The Communist Manifesto (2003). He is currently working on an intellectual biography of Marx.