Edward Mortimer

Edward Mortimer (2011)

Edward Mortimer CMG (born December 22, 1943 in Burford , Oxfordshire ) is a British journalist and former UN official.

Life

Edward Mortimer studied Modern History at Balliol College , Oxford, where he received his PhD in DLitt. He is married to the British artist Elizabeth Mortimer. He worked as a foreign correspondent for The Times , focusing on the Middle East and the Mediterranean region. He became a columnist at the Financial Times , where he was head of foreign affairs from 1987 to 1998. He then worked until 2006 as director of communications in the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in New York. Since then he has worked as a senior advisor at the organization of the Salzburg Seminar and at the non-profit advisory organizations Independent Diplomat and Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation (IHJR) in The Hague . Mortimer is a Fellow of All Souls College Oxford.

In addition to his journalistic work, Mortimer has published several monographs on international politics.

Mortimer was named Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 2010.

Fonts (selection)

• France and the Africans, 1944-60: A Political History . London: Faber & Faber, 1969.
• Faith and Power, the politics of Islam . New York: Random House, 1982.
• The rise of the French Communist Party, 1920-1947 . London: Faber and Faber, 1984.
• Roosevelt's Children: Tomorrow's World Leaders and Their World . Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1987.
• The World That FDR Built: Vision and Reality . New York: Scribner's, 1989. [FDR = Franklin D. Roosevelt]
• European security after the cold war: an assessment of the dangers to peace in Europe since the Soviet collapse, and of the Western responses they require . Adelphi paper. London: Brassey's, 1992
• with Robert Fine (Ed.): People, nation and state: the meaning of ethnicity and nationalism . London: IB Tauris, 1999.
• Edward Mortimer: Caliph County , Collective Review of Current Books on Islamic State , in: FT, September 5, 2015, p. 10

literature

• Johannes Reissner: Faith and Power, The Politics of Islam , Review, in: Die Welt des Islams , 1986, Issue 1, pp. 221–223

Web links

• Literature by and about Edward Mortimer in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Edward Mortimer , at the Bergedorf Round Table
• Edward Mortimer , on All Souls
• Edward Mortimer , at Salzburg Global

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Edward Mortimer ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI TV)  
2. ^ Edward Mortimer, Senior Vice-President and Chief Program Officer, The Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria. For services to international communications and journalism. , in The London Gazette , December 31, 2009