American philosopher and essayist, he is Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University, where he began teaching in 1980. After completing his undergraduate studies, he attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, before attaining his doctorate at Balliol College, Oxford, under the guidance of philosopher Charles Taylor, who was a profound influence on him. In 1980, he accepted an invitation to join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where for decades he was in charge of the «Justice» course. With a total of over 15,000 students enrolled over the years, the course was one of the most widely-attended in Harvard’s history and was even recorded and put online for free access, obtaining millions of views. Included in «Foreign Policy's» list of 100 Global Thinkers, considered by Newsweek to be the «most relevant living philosopher» and an authentic «rock star», and by The New Republic as the «most famous philosophy professor on the planet», Michael Sandel postulates that philosophy should be taught through dialogue and only makes sense in close relation to everyday life, which is why he always tries to incorporate the context in which his discussions take place. His work has been translated into 27 languages and expressed in various books where moral reflection and the deepening of democratic life are irrevocably linked. His most recent bestseller, «What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets», is an invitation to readers to rethink the role that money and markets play in our lives and was named by Foreign Policy as one of the 20 must-read books of the year. He currently continues giving seminars on ethics and biotechnology and teaching the course «Ethics, Economics and the Law».