Tim Judah is a journalist, author and one of Britain’s leading specialists on foreign affairs and demography.
Tim works as a Special Correspondent for The Economist and has contributed to many major publications and broadcasters. He is known for his wartime reporting from Afghanistan to Ukraine for the New York Review of Books.
Throughout his career, Tim has covered conflicts and written critically acclaimed books about the Balkans and Ukraine. In 2022, he was shortlisted for the Bayeux-Calvedos award for war correspondents.
Tim is a sought-after panel chair and keynote speaker. He tackles topics few others can, offering insights drawn from personal experiences in the field.
In recent years, as a Europe’s Futures fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Tim has focused on Europe’s demographic crisis.
Since the 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 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, which explores the conflict in the region.
From 1990 to 1991, Tim lived in Bucharest. He reported on the aftermath of communism in Romania and Bulgaria for The Times and The Economist. He later 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. There, he developed the concept of the ‘Yugosphere’.
Tim serves as the president of the boards of 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 an Olympic gold medal. This work earned Tim a nomination for ‘Best New Sportswriter’ at the 2009 British Sports Book Awards.
