Melissa Lane is the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University, and director of the University Center for Human Values.  (In 2020-21, she was on leave from these positions, as Old Dominion Research Professor in the Humanities Council, Princeton  University.)  She is also an associated faculty member in the Department of Classics and the Department of Philosophy at Princeton. She is co-convenor of the Climate Futures Initiative, supported over time by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and serves on the executive committee of Princeton’s Program in Classical Philosophy. She has served as a trustee of Princeton University Press, chairing its editorial board in 2018-19, and on the Climate Change Working Group of the Social Sciences Research Council. She was awarded a 2015 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize at Princeton University, and a 2012 Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in the field of classics, which she held as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Research in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Looking ahead, she will be the Isaiah Berlin Lecturer at Oxford University in 2024-25, delivering a set of Berlin Lectures in Michaelmas Term 2024, during which term she has been elected to a Visiting Fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. She was previously the Carlyle Lecturer at Oxford in 2017-18, delivering a set of Carlyle Lectures in Hilary Term 2018.