Mary Henrietta Kaldor CBE[1] (born 16 March 1946)[2] is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, where she is also the Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit.

She was the founder and Co-Chair of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly,[5] and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Moreover, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which have been justified in humanitarian terms, have further called into question the case for intervention.

[10] She is the daughter of the economist Nicholas Kaldor[9] and Clarissa Goldschmidt, a history graduate of the University of Oxford who studied at Somerville College.

The couple first met while both were working at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and joined the University of Sussex in 1971.