Timothy Garton Ash

Professor of European Studies, Oxford University

United Kingdom

Timothy Garton Ash is a Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, an Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of ten books of contemporary history and political writing, including most recently a new edition of The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, & Prague, with a new chapter about the last 30 years. He also writes a widely syndicated column on international affairs in The Guardian. In 2017 he was awarded the International Charlemagne Prize for services to European unity.