Brook Manville

Brook Manville is a historian, writer and adviser. His background combines an unusual breadth of academic, consulting and management experience. After completing advanced degrees in history (Yale, Oxford), he became an award-winning university professor. He subsequently reinvented himself as a media and technology executive, and then again as a strategy and organizational consultant, as a partner in McKinsey & Co; and later as the principal of his own consultancy. Today he researches and writes about the history of democracy, democratic leadership, and the future of free societies. Married, with three children, he is based in metropolitan Washington DC. His newest book, The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives, was written with his friend and long-time collaborator Josiah Ober.