David Block is ICREA Research Professor in Sociolinguistics in the Departament d’Humanitats at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a member of the Grup de Recerca en Espais Interculturals de Llengües i Identitats (GREILI).  From 2012 to 2019 he held the same position at the Universitat de Lleida and from 1996 to 2012 he worked at the University of London, Institute of Education (now University College London Institute of Education), where he was Professor of Languages ​​in Education from 2008 to 2012. Over more than three decades he has published books, articles and chapters on various tòpics. Over the last ten years he has focused on the dominant form of capitalism in the early 21st century (what some would call "neoliberalism") and inequality and social class divisions as its key side effects. His most recent work focuses on two very different aspects of contemporary society: on the one hand, he has focused on "post-truth" (and related concepts) and the critical analysis of political discourses; on the other hand, he has focused on the internationalization of higher education worldwide as part of the neoliberalization of contemporary societies. He is co-editor, with Deborah Cameron, of Globalization and Language Teaching (Routledge, 2002) and co-author, with John Gray and Marnie Holborow, of Neoliberalism and Applied Linguistics (Routledge, 2012). He is the author of The Social Turn in Second Language Acquisition (Edinburgh University Press, 2003); Multilingual Identities in a Global City: London Stories (Palgrave, 2006); Second Language Identities (Continuum, 2007/Bloomsbury, 2014); Social Class and Applied Linguistics (Routledge, 2014), Political Economy and Sociolinguistics: Neoliberalism, Inequality and Social Class (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Post-Truth and Political Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). He is currently writing a book entitled Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research for Routledge, and co-editing, with Sarah Khan, The Secret Life of English-medium Instruction, also for Routledge. He is a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences (UK); Visiting Professor at the University College London Institute of Education; editor of the book series Language, Society and Political Economy (Routledge); and Associate Editor of Applied Linguistics Review.