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 is the author of ten books of political writing or ‘history of the present’ including The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, & Prague, The File: A Personal History, In Europe’s Name and Facts are Subversive.

He writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian, which is widely syndicated, and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, amongst other journals.

He leads the 13-language Oxford University research project Freespeechdebate.com, and his latest book is Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World. Awards he has received for his writing include the George Orwell Prize. He leads the 13-language Oxford University research project Freespeechdebate.com, and his latest book is Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World. Awards he has received for his writing include the George Orwell Prize. In January 2017 he was awarded the Karlspreis (Charlemagne Prize) for his work on European unification.