Melissa Lane
Biography
Melissa Lane is University Senior Lecturer in History at Cambridge University, where she teaches political thought and history of ideas, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. She received an A.B. summa cum laude at Harvard University in Social Studies, and an MPhil and PhD in Philosophy from Cambridge. She has been a visiting faculty member at Harvard University and the Australian National University, co-coordinator of the Common Security Forum, and Associate Director of the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge. She is currently a member of the governing bodies of the Cambridge Programme for Industry and the Cambridge University Press.
Melissa Lane 's principal research is on the history of political thought, on which she has published widely including two books, Method and Politics in Plato's Statesmen (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Plato's Progeny: How Socrates and Plato still captivate the modern mind (Duckworth, 2001). She is the author of the new "Introduction" in the Penguin edition of Plato's Republic (Penguin, 2007).
Melissa Lane 's involvement with corporate ethics and philosophy began in 1999, when she became a founding member of education programmes for BP at Cambridge University through the Cambridge Programme for Industry. She has spoken and facilitated at over a dozen week-long workshops for the BP/Cambridge Executive Education Programme and the BP/New Hall Women in Leadership Programme. She has twice been guest faculty and a speaker at the Prince of Wales Business and the Environment Programme, and has also led philosophy sessions at a number of workshops for BP and GlaxoSmithKline run by the Corporate Theatre consultancy. In May 2005 she was a featured speaker at the Society for Organisational Learning in London. She is a frequent speaker and faculty member for the Prince of Wales Business and the Environment Programme. In 2007 she was an invited speaker at a seminar organised by the UN Secretary General's Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, and at a seminar organised jointly by the Arab Financial Forum and Cambridge Interfaith Programme. In 2008 she was the moderator for the annual international L.L. Waters Forum meeting, held in Kiel, Germany.
She has appeared on a number of radio and television broadcasts on the BBC (Radio 3, 4, and 5) and Channel 4 discussing issues on the history of ideas and political ethics, including Channel 4's Millennium Minds, BBC Radio 4's Fear and Voting, and BBC Radio 3's Mary Wollstonecraft, and has published for a wider audience in the Times Literary Supplement and History Today.
Melissa Lane 's principal research is on the history of political thought, on which she has published widely including two books, Method and Politics in Plato's Statesmen (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Plato's Progeny: How Socrates and Plato still captivate the modern mind (Duckworth, 2001). She is the author of the new "Introduction" in the Penguin edition of Plato's Republic (Penguin, 2007).
Melissa Lane 's involvement with corporate ethics and philosophy began in 1999, when she became a founding member of education programmes for BP at Cambridge University through the Cambridge Programme for Industry. She has spoken and facilitated at over a dozen week-long workshops for the BP/Cambridge Executive Education Programme and the BP/New Hall Women in Leadership Programme. She has twice been guest faculty and a speaker at the Prince of Wales Business and the Environment Programme, and has also led philosophy sessions at a number of workshops for BP and GlaxoSmithKline run by the Corporate Theatre consultancy. In May 2005 she was a featured speaker at the Society for Organisational Learning in London. She is a frequent speaker and faculty member for the Prince of Wales Business and the Environment Programme. In 2007 she was an invited speaker at a seminar organised by the UN Secretary General's Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, and at a seminar organised jointly by the Arab Financial Forum and Cambridge Interfaith Programme. In 2008 she was the moderator for the annual international L.L. Waters Forum meeting, held in Kiel, Germany.
She has appeared on a number of radio and television broadcasts on the BBC (Radio 3, 4, and 5) and Channel 4 discussing issues on the history of ideas and political ethics, including Channel 4's Millennium Minds, BBC Radio 4's Fear and Voting, and BBC Radio 3's Mary Wollstonecraft, and has published for a wider audience in the Times Literary Supplement and History Today.