Tim Judah

Tim Judah is a journalist and author and covers the Balkans, Ukraine and other regions as a correspondent for The Economist. He has worked for many major publications and broadcasters, notably writing wartime reportage from Afghanistan to Ukraine for the New York Review of Books. For much of the period since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine he has been in Ukraine covering the conflict for the New York Review of Books and The Economist plus a series for the Financial Times. He was shortlisted for the 2022 Bayeux-Calvedos award for war correspondents. He is the author of three books on the Balkans – The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, Kosovo: War & Revenge and Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know – and published a book on the conflict in Ukraine – In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine in 2016. As a fellow of the Europe’s Futures project of the Institute for Human Sciences / IWM in Vienna he has been researching demography and depopulation in central and eastern Europe and the Balkans.