Ivan Krastev
political analyst; permanent fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna; chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies; author, Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe

Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the board of trustees of the International Crisis Group and member of the Board of Directors of GLOBSEC.

He was a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times (2015-2021) and is currently a Financial Times contributing editor. Ivan Krastev is the author of Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe (Allen Lane, 2020); The Light that Failed: a reckoning (Allen Lane, 2019), co-authored with Stephen Holmes – which won the 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize; After Europe (UPenn Press, 2017); Democracy Disrupted: the global politics on protest (UPenn Press, 2014) and In Mistrust We Trust: can democracy survive when we don’t trust our leaders? (TED Books, 2013).

Ivan Krastev is the winner of the Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing 2020.

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