Michael Ignatieff
Professor
Department of History
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
Michael Ignatieff is President and Rector of CEU. Ignatieff comes to CEU after serving as Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice of the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. An international commentator on contemporary issues of democracy, human rights, and governance and a Canadian citizen, Ignatieff is also an award-winning writer, teacher, former politician, and historian with a deep knowledge of Central and Eastern Europe. Ignatieff received his doctorate in history from Harvard University and has held academic posts at Kings College, Cambridge, the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia. He served in the Canadian Parliament and was Leader of the Liberal Party. His books include The Needs of Strangers (1984), Scar Tissue (1992), Blood and Belonging (1993), The Warrior’s Honour (1997), Isaiah Berlin (1998), The Rights Revolution (2000), Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001), The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004), and Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics (2013).
Research Interest
History.
Publications
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“The Forever War?†The New York Review of Books, September 29, 2016. Review of Mark Danner’s “Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War.â€
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Second Thoughts of a Biographer," in L. Brockliss and R. Robertson (eds.), Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment,Oxford: OUP, 2016, pgs. 220-228.
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The refugee and migration crisis: Proposals for action, U.N. Summit 2016 , together with Juliette Keeley, Betsy Ribble, and Keith McCammon, Washington: The Brookings Institution, September 2016.
