Michael Saward is Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick. A democratic theorist, he is author of The Representative Claim (Oxford UP 2010), Making Representations (ECPR Press and Rowman and Littlefield 2020) and Democratic Design (Oxford UP 2021). In recent years he has been a visiting scholar at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil), and Australian National University. International collaborations have in 2024 produced two new volumes: Claiming and Contesting Representation in Mexico: Meanings, Practices and Settings (edited by F. Castanos, S. Inclan and M. Saward) (Bristol: Bristol University Press 2024); and Bodies, Spaces, Claims: The Theory and Practice of Performing Political Representation (edited by P. Diehl and M. Saward) (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024). Along with Shirin Rai (SOAS) and Warwick Theatre and Performance colleagues Silvija Jestrovic and Milija Gluhovic, he is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance (2021).