Professor Timothy Garton Ash
Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Author of Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West (2004) and
The File: A Personal History (1997) - 檔案羅密歐

Professor Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eight books of political writing or 'history of the present' which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter-century. He 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 . His essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books and he writes a weekly column in the Guardian which is widely syndicated in Europe, Asia and the Americas .  He also contributes to the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. His latest book, Free World, was originally published by Penguin in 2004, and has since appeared in a number of languages.   A Chinese edition will be released soon. 

Honours include the David Watt Memorial Prize, Commentator of the Year in the ‘What the Papers Say' annual awards for 1989, the Premio Napoli, the Imre Nagy Memorial Plaque, the Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize for political writing, the Order of Merit from Germany , Poland and the Czech Republic , and the British CMG. In 2005, he featured in a list of 100 top global public intellectuals chosen by the journals Prospect and Foreign Policy , and in Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people. In 2006, he was awarded the George Orwell Prize for political writing. 

A full biography is available at  http://www.timothygartonash.com/biography.html