Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He also directs Free Speech Debate, a multilingual Oxford University project on global free expression in the internet age. His essays appear regularly in The New York Review of Books and he writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian, which is widely syndicated in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He is the author of nine books of political writing which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last thirty years. His most recent book is Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name (Yale University Press, 2009).