Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. A highly regarded expert on Balkan and European affairs, he is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and sits on the board of trustees of the International Crisis Group and the ERSTE Foundation, as well as the advisory councils of the Open Society Foundations, the Center for European Policy Analysis, and the European Cultural Foundation. He is also a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times International Edition covering Central and Eastern European politics and culture.

Mr. Krastev has held fellowships at St. Antony’s College, Oxford; the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, D.C.; the Collegium Budapest; the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin; the Institute of Federalism at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland; and the Remarque Institute at New York University. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Krastev was the executive director of the International Commission on the Balkans. From 2005 to 2011, he was editor in chief of the Bulgarian edition of Foreign Policy.

A renowned political scientist, he has published widely and is frequently invited to speak at leading international events and conferences. His latest books in English are “After Europe,” published by Penn Press in May 2017; “Democracy Disrupted: The Politics of Global Protest,” published by Penn Press in 2014; and “In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders?” published by TED Books in 2013.

Mr. Krastev lives in Sofia.