Vernon Bogdanor is a political scientist and historian, and one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts. He is a research professor at the Centre for British Politics and Government, King's College London and Emeritus Professor of Politics and Government at the University of Oxford, where he taught for many years.

Internationally and domestically, he has been an adviser to governments and to parliamentary bodies on many occasions. In 1998 he was awarded the CBE for services to constitutional history. In 2009, he was appointed a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, for his work on the law and history of Britain and France. He was knighted in 2023. Vernon's many other honours include: Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences.

Vernon has written widely on government and politics. His most recent books include The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain: Politics and Power Before the First World War (2022), which upends the orthodoxy about the decadent Edwardians, and Making the Weather (2024) on six influential post war politicians.

He is a frequent contributor to TV, radio and the press and was awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies by the Political Studies Association.