Marc Augé is a French anthropologist. In his early career he specialised in West Africa, but he has more recently become known worldwide for his thoughts on the multiple realities of the contemporary Western world. In his book Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995), he introduced the concept of "non-place" to refer to anthropological spaces of transience that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as "places". He served as president of the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris from 1985 to 1995. His other books published in English include In the Metro (2002), Oblivion (2004) and The Future (2014).

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