Timothy Snyder is Chair in Modern European History at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, where he also directs the Public History Lab. He is a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Ukrainian History Global Initiative, and Senior Fellow for Democracy at the Council on Foreign Relations. His scholarship focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, the Soviet Union, the Holocaust and authoritarianism. He is the author or editor of twenty books published in forty languages and writes widely on history, democracy, Ukraine and contemporary politics.