Patrick Bond (born 1961, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is Distinguished Professor at the University of Johannesburg Department of Sociology, where he directs the Centre for Social Change.
[citation needed] He then enrolled in a doctoral program at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering where he received his Ph.D.[3] in 1993[5] ("Finance and uneven development in Zimbabwe", 1992).
[6] He relocated to Southern Africa in 1989, where he took a position at the University of Zimbabwe's Department of Political and Administrative Studies (1989–90) and then Planact (1990–1994).
He has launched strong critiques against neoliberal governance regimes in South Africa and beyond, and the failures of capitalist states to tackle social justice and environmental degradation.
A theme over the years has been his views on South Africa's move from racial to class apartheid, in the form of Neoliberalism.