!!Odd Arne Westad - Biography
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Born in Norway in 1960, Arne Westad  studied philosophy, history, and modern languages at the University of Oslo and received his PhD in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990. \\
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While at LSE, Prof. Westad set up LSE IDEAS, the LSE's centre for international affairs, diplomacy and strategy, together with Professor Michael Cox in 2008. Westad speaks and writes in a number of languages, including his native Norwegian, English, French, German, Mandarin and Russian. He is a well known lecturer in several countries, both on history and on contemporary international affairs, especially with regard to China and East Asia.\\
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He also worked as the International Coordinator of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Advisory Group on Declassification and Archival Access. In 2011 he was nominated as one of two candidates for president of the American Historical Association. From 2013 to 2016 Westad also served as Distinguished Visiting research professor at the University of Hong Kong, and since 2016 he has been a guest professor in the History Department at Peking University\\
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In 2014 Westad became the inaugural holder of the S.T. Lee Chair of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University. While at Harvard, Professor Westad taught international affairs and global history at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. At Harvard, he was also a Senior Scholar at the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies. \\
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In 2019, Westad joined Yale University, where he now teaches courses in global and international history. He is based both in the Yale History Department and in the Jackson School of Global Affairs. He is also an adviser at Davenport College, and serves as director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and co-director of the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit owestad}][{ALLOW upload owestad}][{ALLOW comment All}]