Timothy Garton Ash

Professor of European Studies at Oxford University and author of Facts are Subversive

Timothy Garton Ash is a historian who specialises in the 'history of the present'. A Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Anthony's College London, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, he is also a regular contributor to the Guardian and the New York Review of Books. During the 1980's he reported on the decline of the Soviet Union for a range of publications, including the Times and Spectator.

Garton Ash has also authored a number of books, including Facts are Subversive (2009), Free World (2004), The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (1999), The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (1989), and In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Contintent (1994). He has received numerous awards for his writing, including the David Watt Memorial Prize, the Imre Nagy Memorial Plaque, and the Hoffman von Fallersleben Prize for political writing.