Timothy Less

Timothy Less is a member of Darwin College and a researcher at the Forum on Geopolitics where he is leading a research project called ‘The New Intermarium’, examining the effect of Europe’s shifting geopolitics on the continent’s east.

He is also working on a study of postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina and has written extensively on themes in wider European politics such as the crisis in the European Union, the revival of nationalism, the fragmentation of multiethnic states and the turn towards post-Liberalism.

Outside academia, Tim is the director of the Nova Europa risk consultancy, which provides political and economic analysis of eastern Europe to corporations and public institutions.

Prior to this, he spent a decade as a practitioner of foreign policy at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office where, among other things, he served as a senior research analyst of Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia; the political secretary in Skopje (Macedonia); the head of the British Embassy Office in Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina); and head of the EU Institutions department in London.

Tim is also a former lecturer in East European Politics at the University of Kent and a former risk analyst for the ratings agency, Dun & Bradstreet, where he covered the Balkans and the former Soviet Union. He studied politics and international relations at the Universities of Birmingham, London and Cambridge.