Chandran Kukathas

Dr. Chandran Kukathas is Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Political Science at School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University and a Distinguished Affiliated Fellow at the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He was Head of the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from 2015 to 2019. He served as the Chair of Political Theory in the Department of Government and as Warden of High Holborn and Grosvenor House Halls of Residence at LSE. 

He holds a BA in History and Political Science from the Australian National University, an MA in Politics from the University of New South Wales, and a DPhil in Politics from Oxford University. He has taught at the Royal Military College, Canberra; Oxford; the Australian National University; the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy; and the University of Utah, where he held the Neal Maxwell Chair in Political Theory in the Department of Political Science.

Kukathas is a highly regarded political theorist best known for his contributions to multiculturalism and to the understanding and assessment of F.A Hayek’s political philosophy. He has published several books, including Dialogues on Immigration and the Open Society (Routledge, 2025), Immigration and Freedom (Princeton University Press, 2021), The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom (Oxford University Press, 2007), and Hayek and Modern Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 1989).