Alex Skin­ner holds a first-class MA in Scan­di­na­vian Stud­ies and Ger­man from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh and an MSc in social anthro­pol­o­gy from the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics. He has trans­lat­ed more than twen­ty books from Ger­man to Eng­lish in the human­i­ties and social sciences.