Tim Judah is a journalist, author, and one of Britain’s leading experts on foreign affairs and demography. He works as a Special Correspondent for The Economist and has contributed to many major publications and broadcasters. Tim is known for his wartime reporting, covering conflicts from Afghanistan to Ukraine for the New York Review of Books.
Throughout his career, Tim has reported on conflicts and written critically acclaimed books about the Balkans and Ukraine. In 2022, he was shortlisted for the Bayeux-Calvados award for war correspondents. Tim is also a sought-after panel chair and keynote speaker. He addresses topics few others can, drawing on personal experiences in the field.
In recent years, Tim has focused on Europe’s demographic crisis as a Europe’s Futures fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Tim has spent much of his time there. He reports on the conflict and frontline developments for both the New York Review of Books and The Economist.
Tim has authored three books on the Balkans: The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia, Kosovo: War & Revenge, and Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know. In 2016, he published In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine, exploring the region’s conflict.
From 1990 to 1991, Tim lived in Bucharest. There, he reported on the aftermath of communism in Romania and Bulgaria for The Times and The Economist. Later, he moved to Belgrade to cover the war in Yugoslavia. Though he returned to London in 1995, he continues to visit the region frequently.
In 2009, Tim became a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at LSEE, the southeast Europe research unit of the European Institute at the London School of Economics. While there, he developed the concept of the ‘Yugosphere.’
Tim also serves as president of the boards for the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and the Kosovar Stability Initiative (IKS).
Over the last two decades, Tim has reported globally for The Economist and the New York Review of Books. He has covered stories in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Madagascar, Niger, Senegal, Sudan, North Korea, Darfur, Haiti, France, and Armenia.
In 2008, Tim published Bikila: Ethiopia’s Barefoot Olympian with Reportage Press. The book chronicles the life of Abebe Bikila, the first Black African to win Olympic gold. This work earned Tim a nomination for ‘Best New Sportswriter’ at the 2009 British Sports Book Awards.
