Tony R. Judt

Professor Tony Judt "was born in London in 1948. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge and the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, Berkeley and New York University, where he is currently the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies and Director of the Remarque Institute, which he founded in 1995. The author or editor of twelve books - most recently "Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945" - he is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times and many other journals in Europe and the US."

• Board of Overseers, Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University
• Director, French-American Foundation
• Winner of the 2006 Council on Foreign Relations: Arthur Ross Book Award