Tim Judah
Tim Judah is a journalist and author. He covers the Balkans, Ukraine and other regions for The Economist. He has been a fellow of the Europe’s Futures project at the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. He has worked for many major publications and broadcasters, notably as a war correspondent for the New York Review of Books on conflicts from Afghanistan to Ukraine. He was shortlisted for the 2022 Bayeux Calvedos-Normandy Award for war correspondents. He is the author of three books on the Balkans: The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (1997); Kosovo: War & Revenge (2000) and Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know (2008). In 2009 he was a senior research visiting fellow at LSEE, the London School of Economics’ South Eastern Europe research institute, where he developed the concept of the “Yugosphere”. In 2016 he published In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine. In spring 2024, he completed a book on the demography and depopulation of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
