Sean Gabb

Sean Ivor Gabb, born 4 August 1960, Chatham, Kent, is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster who lives in England (Deal, Kent). He is the Director of the Libertarian Alliance, a British free market and civil liberties charity.

Early Life and Education

Gabb attended a comprehensive school in South East London, and later studied at the University of York, from where he graduated in History in 1982. In 1998 he gained a PhD in History from Middlesex University.

Career

Between 1990 and 1992, he worked in Czechoslovakia as Economic and Political Adviser to Ján Čarnogurský, the Christian Democratic Prime Minister of Slovakia. He wrote for the English-language Prague Post and widely for the Czech and Slovak media on economic reform. He co-wrote the 1992 election programme for the Slovak Christian Democratic Movement (Slovak: Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie, KDH).

He has taught at a number of universities, including London Metropolitan University. During the 1990s, he wrote several books and journal articles about truancy. These included a British Government report published by Her Majesty's Stationary Office., and a study of truancy in the United States. More recently, he wrote a book about the law of homeschooling in the United Kingdom. He was also a director of the Sudan Foundation which existed "to promote better relations between the British and Sudanese peoples." He resigned from this post in January 1999.