Jonathan White is Professor of Politics at the London School of Economics, where he researches and teaches on democracy, political thought and political theory. He has held visiting positions at Harvard, Stanford, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Humboldt University, Hertie School, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Sciences Po Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the Australian National University. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in 2007. Before this he was a research fellow at the Czech Institute of International Relations in Prague, and a lecturer at universities in the Czech Republic and Albania.

His books include In the Long Run: the Future as a Political Idea (Profile Books, 2024), Politics of Last Resort: Governing by Emergency in the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2019), The Meaning of Partisanship (with Lea Ypi; Oxford University Press, 2016) and Political Allegiance after European Integration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

He was the recipient of the 2017 British Academy Brian Barry Prize for excellence in political science, and has held fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung and the Leverhulme Trust. He has also written for The Guardian, New Statesman, Foreign Policy and Boston Review.