Paul James is Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. He is author or editor of over 30 books, including Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times (with Manfred Steger, Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Global Crisis and Insecurity: The Human Condition, Darkly (Cambridge University Press, 2025). He has been an advisor to a number of agencies and governments, including to the Berlin Senate Chancellery, the Canadian G40 process, the Commission on Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor, and the Papua New Guinea Minister for Community Development. From 2007 till 2014 he was Director of the United Nations agency, the Global Compact Cities Programme.