Professor Martin Albrow 马丁·阿尔布劳教授 FAcSS (PhD, University of Cambridge) held the Chair in Sociological Theory in the University of Wales in Cardiff before becoming Professor Emeritus in 1989. Since then, he has held visiting positions in numerous institutions, including the Eric Voegelin chair in Munich, and chairs in the London School of Economics, State University of New York, Stonybrook, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC and the Beijing Foreign Studies University. Currently, he is non-resident Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Studies ‘Law as Culture’, Bonn University.

In the past he has been founding Honorary President of Global China Academy (2013-2021), President and of the British Sociological Association (BSA), Editor of the journal Sociology and founding editor of International Sociology. His first visit to China was in 1987 on an observational tour with the State Family Planning Commission. In recent years he has contributed to the annual Symposium on China Studies with the Academy of Social Sciences and the Ministry of Culture of the PRC and academic engagements with many Univeristies in China.

His specialties include social theory, organization theory and Max Weber’s thought, and he is internationally known for his pioneering work on globalization. His The Global Age: State and Society beyond Modernity (1996) won the European Amalfi Prize in 1997. Other books include Bureaucracy (1970), Max Weber’s Construction of Social Theory (1990), Globalization, Knowledge and Society (1990, ed. with E. King), the first book with the keyword ‘globalization’ in title (book reviewed by Roland Robertson, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 21, No. 1, Jan. 1992), Do Organizations Have Feelings? (1997), Sociology: The Basics (1999), Global Civil Society (co-editor) in 2006/7, 2007/8 and 2011, Global Age Essays on Social and Cultural Change (2014), China’s Role in a Shared Human Future: Towards Theory for Global Leadership (2018) and China and the Shared Human Future: Exploring common values and goals (2021).

马丁·阿尔布劳教授（Professor Martin Albrow），英国社会科学院院士（FAcSS），剑桥大学博士，曾任威尔士大学卡迪夫分校社会理论讲席教授，并于1989年退休后获授名誉教授称号。此后，他曾在多个学术机构担任访问职位，包括德国慕尼黑的埃里克·沃格林讲席教授、伦敦政治经济学院、纽约州立大学石溪分校、华盛顿哥伦比亚特区的伍德罗·威尔逊国际学者中心，以及北京外国语大学。目前，他是波恩大学“法律作为文化”高级研究卡特·汉堡中心（Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Studies “Law as Culture”）的非常驻高级研究员。

他曾任全球中国学术院创院荣誉院长（2013-2021年）、英国社会学会会长、《社会学》（Sociology）期刊主编、以及《国际社会学》（International Sociology）期刊的创刊主编。他首次访问中国是在1987年，随国家计划生育委员会进行考察访问。近年来，他积极参与由中国社会科学院与中华人民共和国文化部联合主办的“中华学术外译国际高端论坛”（China Studies Symposium）以及与国内诸多大学的学术交流。

阿尔布劳教授的研究专长包括社会理论、组织理论以及马克斯·韦伯思想，并因其在全球化研究方面的开创性工作而享有国际声誉。他于1996年出版的《全球时代：超越现代性的国家与社会》（The Global Age: State and Society beyond Modernity）荣获1997年欧洲阿马尔菲社会科学奖。其他重要著作包括：《官僚制》（Bureaucracy, 1970）、《马克斯·韦伯的社会理论建构》（Max Weber’s Construction of Social Theory, 1990）、《全球化、知识与社会》（Globalization, Knowledge and Society, 1990，与E. King合编，系第一部以“全球化”命名的著作，罗兰·罗伯逊在《当代社会学》（Contemporary Sociology）1992年第21卷第1期撰文评述）、《组织有感情吗？》（Do Organizations Have Feelings?, 1997）、《社会学基础》（Sociology: The Basics, 1999）、《全球公民社会》（Global Civil Society，2006/07、2007/08与2011年合编）、《全球时代：社会与文化变迁论集》（Global Age: Essays on Social and Cultural Change, 2014）、《中国在共享人类未来中的角色：全球领导力理论探索》（China’s Role in a Shared Human Future: Towards Theory for Global Leadership, 2018），《中国与人类命运共同体：探寻共同的价值与目标》（China and the Shared Human Future: Exploring Common Values and Goals, 2021），以及《诚信与整合：一种独特西方观念的演进及其命运》（Integrity: The Rise of a Distinctive Western Idea and Its Destiny，(2024) 。

Click here to view GCA’s Past Honorary President Professor Martin Albrow’s Academic Tour at Universities and Institutions in Beijing, 15-25/10/2023.