Amitav Acharya is Distinguished Professor of International Relations and the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance at American University, Washington, DC. He is also a Berggruen Institute Fellow for 2019-20. His recent books include The Making of Global International Relations: Origins and Evolution of IR at Its Centenary (co-author with Barry Buzan, Cambridge, 2019), Constructing Global Order: Agency and Change in World Politics (Cambridge, 2018); and The End of American World Order, 2^nd edn. (Polity, 2018). He was President of the International Studies Association (ISA) in 2014-15. He is recipient of two Distinguished Scholar Awards from the ISA, one for his “contribution to non-Western IR theory and inclusion”; and the other for his “influence, intellectual works and mentorship” in the field of International Organization.