BIO

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow Emeritus at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

He is the author of eleven books of contemporary history which have explored many facets of the history of Europe over the last half-century. They include The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, The File: A Personal History, In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent, Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name and Free Speech: Ten Principles For a Connected World. He writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian, which is widely syndicated, and is a regular contributor to the Financial Times and the New York Review of Books, among other journals.

From 2001 to 2006, he was Director of the European Studies Centre at Oxford, where he now chairs the Academic Steering Committee of the Dahrendorf Programme. The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, & Prague was reissued in 2019 with a new chapter exploring the 30 years since 1989 in post-communist Europe. His latest book, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, was recently awarded the Lionel Gelber Prize.

Translations into 24 other European languages have either been published or are in preparation. In 2017 he was honoured with the International Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen, for services to European unity.