Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze is Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University, Director of the European Institute and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought. He has authored many books on twentieth century and contemporary history, including Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy (2021), Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (2018), The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 (2014), and The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (2006). His books have been translated into eleven languages. He writes the "Chartbook" newsletter, co-hosts Foreign Policy's "Ones and Tooze" podcast, and his columns and commentary can be found in the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other publications.

From 1996 to 2009, Dr. Tooze taught at the University of Cambridge, where he was Reader in Modern History and Gurnee Hart fellow in History at Jesus College. After Cambridge, he was appointed to the Barton M. Biggs Professorship at Yale University, where he succeeded Paul Kennedy as the Director of International Security Studies. Dr. Tooze joined Columbia’s history department in 2015.

For his books, Dr. Tooze has won the Leverhulme prize fellowship, the H-Soz-Kult Historisches Buch Prize, the Longman History Today Prize, the Wolfson Prize and the LA Times History Prize. He was shortlisted for the Kirkus Review, Duff Cooper and Hessel Tiltman prize and his books have featured in the book of the year lists of the Financial Times, LA Times, Kirkus Review, Foreign Affairs and the Economist.

Dr. Tooze earned a BA in Economics from King's College, Cambridge, and a PhD in History from the London School of Economics.