Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash, born in 1955, is a British historian, author and public commentator. He has held a professorship in European Studies at the University of Oxford and was a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. In 2017, he received the Charlemagne Prize. His books include *Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World*, *The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague*, and *Homelands: A Personal History of Europe*.