Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of Trustees of The International Crisis Group, the European Investment Bank Global Advisory Council, and the Board of Directors of GLOBSEC.

He is a Financial Times contributing editor and the author of Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2020), The Light that Failed: A Reckoning (co-authored with Stephen Holmes, Allen Lane/Penguin, 2019), After Europe (Penn Press, 2017), and In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders? (TED Books, 2013).