Guest Speaker Bio

Misha Glenny 

Misha Glenny is an award-winning broadcaster and historian. As the BBC’s Central Europe correspondent, he covered the revolutions in Eastern Europe and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He is the author of several best-selling books, including The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-2012, but is probably best-known for his 2008 book, McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime, which mapped the globalisation of organised crime and political corruption after the fall of communism and was later turned into an Emmy Award-winning TV drama by the BBC and AMC.  

Misha is an alumnus of the University of Bristol, Freie Universität Berlin and Charles University in Prague. A speaker of German, Czech, Serbo-Croat and Portuguese, he has taught as a visiting professor at the LSE, Columbia University and UCL.