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 currently is a Financial Times
contributing editor. Ivan Krastev is the author of “Is it Tomorrow,
Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe” (Penguin, 2020); “The
Light that Failed: A Reckoning” (Penguin, 2019), co-authored
with Stephen Holmes – 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