Anne Applebaum is a Washington Post columnist and a Pulitzer-prize winning author and leading commentator on International Affairs and a frequent speaker and moderator at international forums.
Anne is a highly respected columnist for the Washington Post and is a leading commentator on world strategic issues. Her primary areas of expertise are US foreign policy, democratic revolutions, Russian politics, totalitarian societies, the history of communism, Afghanistan and transatlantic security policy. Her experience as a journalist has spanned leading newspapers and journals including the Spectator magazine in London, the Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph as well as The Economist newspaper.
She is an author of several books, the first being, Between East and West: across the Borderlands of Europe, which described a journey through Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus, then on the verge of independence. Her most recent book, Gulag: a History, was published in 2003 and won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2004 and appeared in more than two dozen translations. She is currently researching a new book on the Stalinization of post-war Central Europe.
Anne is an engaging speaker on global strategic affairs and a very capable chairperson for senior level international conferences. She also delivers speeches at leading universities around the world.
Anne Applebaum was born in Washington, DC in 1964. After graduating from Yale University, she was a Marshall Scholar at the London School of Economics and St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Her husband, Radoslaw Sikorski, is a Polish politician and writer.
Anne is a highly respected columnist for the Washington Post and is a leading commentator on world strategic issues. Her primary areas of expertise are US foreign policy, democratic revolutions, Russian politics, totalitarian societies, the history of communism, Afghanistan and transatlantic security policy. Her experience as a journalist has spanned leading newspapers and journals including the Spectator magazine in London, the Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph as well as The Economist newspaper.
She is an author of several books, the first being, Between East and West: across the Borderlands of Europe, which described a journey through Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus, then on the verge of independence. Her most recent book, Gulag: a History, was published in 2003 and won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2004 and appeared in more than two dozen translations. She is currently researching a new book on the Stalinization of post-war Central Europe.
Anne is an engaging speaker on global strategic affairs and a very capable chairperson for senior level international conferences. She also delivers speeches at leading universities around the world.
Anne Applebaum was born in Washington, DC in 1964. After graduating from Yale University, she was a Marshall Scholar at the London School of Economics and St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Her husband, Radoslaw Sikorski, is a Polish politician and writer.
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