LMF2025

Timothy Garton Ash
British historian and Professor of European Studies at St Antony’s College, Oxford University, Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Garton Ash has authored eleven books on European history, including his latest, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe (2023), which has been translated into over 20 languages, including Ukrainian. The book won him the prestigious Lionel Gelber Prize, awarded each year to the best English-language non-fiction work on foreign affairs that sparks public debate on major international topics. A passionate advocate for Ukraine, he donated his prize money to the Come Back Alive fund to aid the Ukrainian army.
He is also a well-known public commentator, regularly contributing to The New York Review of Books and The Guardian.
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Anne Applebaum
The Atlantic; SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian, and commentator on international affairs, with a particular focus on Eastern Europe and authoritarianism
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Dorka Takácsy
German Marshall Fund of the United States; Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy