Shalini Randeria is President and Rector of the Central European University (CEU). An American-born Indian social anthropologist/sociologist, she is the first woman, and the first person from the Global South to take up this position since the founding of the university 30 years ago. With a distinguished academic career at some of Europe’s most notable institutions of higher learning, Randeria has published widely on the anthropology of globalization, law, the state and social movements. She is a public intellectual and a frequent media commentator. Randeria’s influential podcast series Democracy in Question addresses what needs to be done to ensure the future well-being of our democratic institutions and practices.