Professor Nigel Ashford is a British academic and author, primarily in the field of politics.
Having directed the Principles of a Free Society Project at the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation in Sweden he was appointed professor of politics and Jean Monnet Scholar in European Integration at Staffordshire University, England. he works for the Institute for Humane Studies near Washington DC. Ashford is on the Advisory Council of the Democracy Institute.
He has been awarded the International Anthony Fisher Trust Prize.