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.