Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, UK, Affiliated Professor of Sociology at Linnaeus University, Sweden.  Former co-Director of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences at Uppsala, former Professor of Sociology at Gothenburg University, Sweden, former Professor of Political Science at the Catholic University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

He has worked in and on all the populated continents of the world. His works have been published in at least twenty-four languages. He is also a civic intellectual, with a lifetime commitment to universal freedom and equality, a supporter  of anti-imperialist and egalitarian social movements, as well as a writer of and on Marxist and Radical theory.  Since his retirement from Cambridge in 2010 he lives at Ljungbyholm, in southeast Sweden. He is married with two children, Thomas Therborn and the poetess and critic Anna Hallberg.

(From http://www.therborn.com/)

Publications linked with Africa:
- 2004: African Families in a Global Context (editor and co-author), Uppsala, Nordic Africa Institute
- 2011: Capital Cities in Africa, Power and powerlessness (co-edited with S. Bekker), Cape Town and Dakar, HSRC Press and CODESRIA