Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze

Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History Director of the European Institute

Columbia University, United States

Prize-winning historian, writer and economic commentator, Adam Tooze combines deep historical expertise with up to date economic analysis to answer questions about current and future political power and economical shifts that could be used to navigate in our dynamic contemporary world.

Adam has advised governments and ministries and toured the world as a lecturer. Adam’s newest book is titled Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World’s Economy. The book weaves finance, politics, business, and the global human experience into one tight narrative, a tour-de-force account of 2020, the year that changed everything. Professor Tooze teaches and researches widely in the fields of twentieth-century and contemporary history with a special focus on the history of economics and a range of themes in political, intellectual and military history, across a canvas stretching from Europe to the Atlantic. He is currently working on the history of the climate crisis.