Editoria e Media
Announcing the shortlist for the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize
"The jury has chosen five books that explore topics critical to our understanding of the forces that influence the global economy and international cooperation," said
Judith Gelber , Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize Board. "They each exemplify the values of the Lionel Gelber Prize with elegant writing on important issues."
This year's shortlist was selected by the 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize Jury: Prof.
Janice Gross Stein (Jury Chair), Prof. Rosa Brooks ( Washington ), Prof.
Francis J. Gavin ( Washington ),
Iain Martin ( London ) and
Eric Reguly ( Rome ).
The winner will be announced on March 6, 2024. The winning author will take part in a hybrid event hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy on March 25, 2024.
The Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world's best non-fiction book on international affairs published in English, was founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber. A cash prize of $50,000 CAD is awarded to the winner. The award is presented annually by University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. For further information, please visit: or follow @gelberprize on Facebook and Twitter.
, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (PublicAffairs, Hatchette Book Group)
is Institute Professor of Economics at
MIT , the university's highest faculty honor. For the last twenty-five years, he has been researching the historical origins of prosperity, poverty, and the effects of new technologies on economic growth, employment, and inequality. Acemoglu is the recipient of several awards and honors, including the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to economists under forty judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge (2005); the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in economics, finance, and management for his lifetime contributions (2016), and the Kiel Institute's Global Economy Prize in economics (2019). He is author (with
James Robinson ) of and the bestseller
is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Sloan School at
MIT , where he is also head of the Global Economics and Management group. Previously chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, he has worked on global economic crises and recoveries for thirty years. Johnson has published more than 300 high-impact pieces in leading publications such as , , , , and . He is author (with
Jon Gruber ) of , and (with
James Kwak ) of and the national bestseller . He works with entrepreneurs, elected officials, and civil society organizations around the world.
, Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman (Macmillan, Henry Holt and Co. U.S.A.; Allen Lane , an imprint of Penguin Press, U.K.)
:
is the SNF Agora Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS, the 2019 winner of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology, Editor-in-Chief of
at The Washington Post, and co-founder of the popular academic blog, Crooked Timber. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Farrell has written for publications such as
, the ,
, , , , , , and .
is a professor at the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University . Known for his research on the politics generated by globalization, he serves as a frequent commentator on international affairs, appearing on news programs ranging from to and . His work has been published in leading outlets like , , , , , , , and .
, Timothy Garton Ash ( Yale University Press)
Timothy Garton Ash is professor of European studies at the University of Oxford and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University . His books include , his eyewitness account of the revolutions of 1989; , based on reading his own Stasi file; and . He lives in Oxford , England.
, Harold James ( Yale University Press)
Harold James is the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies and professor of history and international affairs at Princeton University . He is the author of numerous books, most recently (Yale, 2021) and ( Cambridge , 2020).
(MIT Press)
Wendy H. Wong is a Professor of Political Science and Principal's Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She is the author of two award-winning books: and (with Sarah S. Stroup )
Lani Krantz , Communications and Media Relations Specialist, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto , +1 (647) 407-4384 (text preferred), lani.krantz@utoronto.ca
Photo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2336731/The_Lionel_Gelber_Prize_Announcing_the_shortlist_for_the_2024_Li.jpg
View original content:https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/announcing-the-shortlist-for-the-2024-lionel-gelber-prize-302057686.html