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Ivan Krastev

Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna

Ivan Krastev

Biography

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). Ivan Krastev is the author of "Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe"; The Light that Failed: A Reckoning, co-authored with Stephen Holmes - won the 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize; “After Europe”; “Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics on Protest” and “In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders?”. Ivan Krastev is the winner of the Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing 2020.