Peter Self

Peter John Otter Self was an English journalist, academic, planning policy-maker and university teacher of planning. Born in Brighton to Henry Self, Self was educated at Lancing College and then Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He went on to become Emeritus Professor of Public Administration at the London School of Economics and Professor of Urban Research at the Australian National University. He died in Canberra on 29 March 1999. He was the father of Jonathan Self and Will Self.