Adam Tooze

Formerly a professor at both the University of Cambridge and Yale University, and a visiting professor of military history at West Point, Adam Tooze currently teaches at Columbia University where he is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History and the Director of the European Institute. Tooze previously taught at the University of Cambridge and at Yale University, where he was the Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and the Director of International Security Studies.

Tooze is the author of two award-winning books: The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of Global Order, 1916-1931 and The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. His critically acclaimed book on the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, is widely regarded as one of the best analyses of the global financial crisis. Tooze’s books have earned prizes from the Leverhulme Trust, Longman History Today, the Wolfson Prize, and the LA Times History Prize. They have been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper and Hessel Tiltman Prizes and featured in best-book lists from the Financial Times, LA Times, Kirkus Review, Foreign Affairs, and The Economist.

Tooze is the host of the weekly Foreign Policy economics podcast Ones and Tooze. Each episode revolves around two data points, one pulled from the week’s headlines and the other a fascinating tangent, offering an in-depth look at current events and placing them into historical context. He has also written and reviewed for a variety of prominent publications, including the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, The TLS, The LRB, The New Left Review, The New Statesman, The WSJ, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Dissent, Die Zeit, Spiegel, TAZ, and Die Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

Tooze earned his BA in Economics from King’s College, Cambridge, and later completed his PhD at the London School of Economics.  He is bilingual in English and German and has functional French.