Timothy Garton Ash este profesor la Oxford University din Anglia si Senior Fellow la Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace, Standford University, SUA. Domenii de studiu: eliberarea tarilor estice de comunism, legaturile dintre intelectualitate si politica, legaturile dintre Uniunea Europeana si restul Europei. De acelasi autor: The File (1998), In Europes Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (1993), We the People: The Revolution of 1989 as Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague (1990), The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, 1980-82 (1983). The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (1989)