Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond (born 1961, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is Distinguished Professor at the University of Johannesburg Department of Sociology, where he directs the Centre for Social Change. From 2020 to 2021 he was professor at the University of the Western Cape School of Government and from 2015 to 2019, distinguished professor of political economy at the University of the Witwatersrand Wits School of Governance.^[1] Before that, from 2004, he was senior professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he directed the Centre for Civil Society.^[2] His research interests include political economy, environment, social policy, and geopolitics.