Global cosmopolitanism is a subset of a cosmopolitan ideal, and one that can be found resident as an emerging identity formation on the Internet^{[citation needed]}. A 'global' cosmopolitan is an individual adept at navigating freely within cyberspace, and in doing so understands and can operate successfully, within various global perspectives and among intercultural communicative preferences^{[citation needed]}.

Such a cosmopolitan has acquired skills to achieve intercultural communicative sensitivity in terms of computer mediated communication (CMC) and online environments, and is therefore able to navigate the complex waters of cultural formations online. In relation to postcolonial theory, this emerging identity formation on the Internet, is reflective of both the colonizer and the colonized in its emergence^{[citation needed]}.

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Mary Kaldor (born 16 March 1946) is a British academic, currently Professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, where she is also the Director of its Centre for the Study of Global Governance. She has been a key figure in the development of cosmopolitan democracy. She writes on globalisation, international relations and humanitarian intervention, global civil society and global governance, as well as what she calls New Wars.

Before the LSE, Kaldor worked at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and now serves on its governing board. She also worked at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, where she worked closely with English economist Christopher Freeman. She was a founding member of European Nuclear Disarmament, editing its European Nuclear Disarmament Journal (1983–88). She was the founder and Co-Chair of the Helsinki Citizens Assembly, and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. She also writes for OpenDemocracy.net, and belongs to the Board of Trustees of the Hertie School of Governance.

David Held (born 1951) is Master of University College, Durham, and a British political theorist active in the field of international relations. In addition to the mastership of University College, He is since January 2012 professor of politics and international relations at Durham University from January 2012, having moved from the Graham Wallas chair of Political Science and the co-directorship of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics. Together with Daniele Archibugi, he has been prominent in the development of cosmopolitanism, and of cosmopolitan democracy in particular. He has been an active scholar on issues of globalisation and global governance.

David Held was born in Britain where he spent most of his childhood. He was educated in Britain, France, Germany and the United States. He has held numerous Visiting Appointments in the United States, Australia, Canada and Spain, among other places. In the last five years he has lectured regularly on questions of democracy, global governance and globalization.

Kwame Anthony Appiah ( /ˈæpɪɑː/ API-ah; born 1954) is a Ghanaian-British-Americanphilosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up in Ghana and earned a Ph.D. at Cambridge University. He is currently the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.

Appiah was born in London to Enid Margaret Appiah, an art historian and writer, and Joe Emmanuel Appiah born 16 November 1918

a lawyer, diplomat, and politician from the Asante region, once part of the British Gold Coast Colony but now part of Ghana. For two years (1970-72) he was the leader of a new opposition party that was made by the country's three opposing parties, simultaneously he was the president of the Ghana Bar association. Between the years 1977-78 he was Ghana's representative at the united nations. He died on 8 July 1990 in an Accra hospital at age 71.

Saskia Sassen (born in The Hague, January 5, 1949) is a Dutch-American sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She currently is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Centennial visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Sassen coined the term global city. She is married to the sociologist Richard Sennett.

Sassen grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where her parents Willem Sassen and Miep van der Voort moved in 1950. She also spent a part of her youth in Italy and says she was "brought up in five languages."

From 1966, Sassen spent a year each at the Université de Poitiers, France, the Università degli Studi di Roma, and the Universidad de Buenos Aires, for studies in philosophy and political science. From 1969, Sassen studied sociology and economics at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where she obtained M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1971 and 1974, respectively. In addition, she obtained a French master's degree in philosophy in Poitiers in 1974. In January 2004, Sassen received the honoris causa degree in urbanism at Delft University of Technology.