Adam Tooze
Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History, Columbia University
Adam Tooze holds the Shelby Cullom Davis chair of History at Columbia University and serves as Director of the European Institute. Having received his BA in Economics from King’s College Cambridge in the summer of 1989, he went on to take his PhD from the London School of Economics. From 1996 to 2009, he taught at the University of Cambridge, where he was Reader in Modern History and Gurnee Hart fellow in History at Jesus College.
After Cambridge, Adam Tooze was appointed to the Barton M. Biggs Professorship at Yale University, where he succeeded Paul Kennedy as the Director of International Security Studies. He joined Columbia’s history department in the summer of 2015.
Featured work
Navigating a more polarised world: policy implications
Bruegel Annual Meetings, Day 2 - Are we entering a new age in the relationship between international economics and global politics? Is Europe well-equ
Bruegel Annual Meetings, 1-3 September 2021
The 2021 Annual Meetings gathered high-level speakers and participants to discuss how to recover from the crises brought on by the Covid pandemic