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Adam Tooze holds the Shelby Cullom Davis chair of History at Columbia University and serves as Director of the European Institute there. In 2019, Foreign Policy Magazine named him one of the top Global Thinkers of the decade. 
Adam is the author of several books, including Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy (2021). For his books Adam won the Leverhulme prize fellowship, the H-Soz-Kult Historisches Buch Prize, the Longman History Today Prize, the Wolfson Prize and the LA Times History Prize.

Chartbook, his newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history, has over 120,000 subscribers. He is a columnist for Foreign Policy, where he also hosts a weekly economics podcast, Ones & Tooze.

Adam was born in London. He grew up between England and Heidelberg Germany. Having received his BA in Economics from King’s College Cambridge in the summer of 1989, he had the good fortune to witness the end of the Cold War in Berlin, where he began his postgraduate studies. He went on to take his PhD from the London School of Economics. From 1996 to 2009 Adam taught at the University of Cambridge, where he was Reader in Modern History and Gurnee Hart fellow in History at Jesus College. After Cambridge, Adam was appointed to the Barton M. Biggs Professorship at Yale University, where he succeeded Paul Kennedy as the Director of International Security Studies. Adam joined Columbia’s history department in the summer of 2015. In February 2011 Adam served as Thomas Hawkins Johnson Visiting Professor in Military History at West Point.

With his books, he was shortlisted for the Kirkus review, Duff Cooper and Hessel Tiltman prize and his books have featured in the book of the year lists of the Financial Times, LA Times, Kirkus Review, Foreign Affairs and The Economist. Adam’s books have been translated into eleven languages.
Adam has appeared on PBS Television, BBC Radio, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, the History Channel, Swiss and French television. He has written and reviewed for numerous publication including the Financial Times, The Guardian, the New York Times, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

STATE OF ASIA podcast

Season 7, Episode 6 – published November 12, 2024.

Host / Editor: Remko Tanis, Programs and Editorial Manager, Asia Society Switzerland

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The State of Asia Address was delivered on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, at an event organized by Asia Society Switzerland and the University of Zurich.