Fonna Forman

San Diego

Fonna Forman is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of California, San Diego and founding Director of the UCSD Center on Global Justice. She is best known for her revisionist work on Adam Smith, recuperating the ethical, social, spatial and public dimensions of his political economy. Current work focuses on climate justice in cities, on human rights at the urban scale and civic participation as a strategy of equitable urbanization. She presently consults on social and economic rights for the Commission on Global Citizenship, to advise the United Nations on human rights policy.