Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University, an Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at Oxford’s St. Antony’s College, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He also directs the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom at St. Antony’s. He is the author of ten books on contemporary history and political literature, including a new book Homelands: A Personal History of Europe. He writes a column on international affairs in The Guardian and is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, among other publications. He has received a number of awards for his writing include the Somerset Maugham Award, Prix Européen de l’Essai and the George Orwell Prize. He was awarded the International Charlemagne Prize in the service of European unification in 2017.