Daniel Ziblatt
Eaton Professor of Government & Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Harvard University

Professor Ziblatt studies democracy and authoritarianism in Europe and the United States. He is author (with Steven Levitsky) of How Democracies Die (Crown Publishing, 2018), a New York Times best-seller (translated into over thirty languages) and described by The Economist magazine as "the most important book of the Trump era" as well  as Tyranny of the Minority (Crown Publishing, 2023), also a New York Times bestseller. Prior to this, he was the author of the prize-winning book on the historical rise and collapse of democracy in 19th and 20th century Europe, Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and a book on European state-building, Structuring the State (Princeton University Press, 2006).  Recently, Ziblatt been elected to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (2025) and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2023).

Professor Ziblatt's writings also appear in outlets like the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Die Zeit.