Michael Bratman is U. G. and Abbie Birch Durfee Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. His research focuses on structures of individual, social and institutional agency, practical rationality and self-governance, and the extent to which our human capacity for intentions and planning agency is a core capacity that underlies multiple forms of human practical organization, diachronic and social. He has pursued these interests in a series of books, including Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason (1987); Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together (2014); and Shared and Institutional Agency: Toward a Planning Theory of Human Practical Organization (2022). His joint paper with David Israel and Martha Pollack, “Plans and Resource-Bounded Practical Reasoning” (1988) received the 2008 International Foundation of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems influential paper award.