M Pekin

Metin Pekin earned his BA in Political Economy from the University of Greenwich before becoming a serial entrepreneur, founding and growing several companies from the ground up. His decades in business revealed how economic power inevitably shapes political power. 

Combining academic insight with real-world experience, Pekin noticed a troubling pattern: no matter which party won, inequality deepened, surveillance expanded, whistleblowers were punished, and wars continued. Reformers who tried to make real change were pushed aside, while party insiders controlled who could even compete for power.

In his Gold award-winning first book, Breaking Democracy’s Chains, Pekin makes a powerful, well-researched case that true democracy can only emerge by breaking the grip of political parties and returning power to the people.