Andrew Roberts is a prominent scholar, public intellectual, and political commentator who has been described as “a great historian who is always relevant to contemporary thinking and contemporary problems” (Henry Kissinger) and “One of the greatest biographers in the English language today” (Sir Noel Malcolm).

He has authored or edited more than twenty books, including Churchill: Walking with Destiny (2018), Conflict: A Military History of the Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine (2023, with David Petraeus), The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III (2021), and Napoleon: A Life (2014).

He is currently the Bonnie and Tom McCloskey Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Visiting Professor at the War Studies Department at King’s College, London, and Lehrman Institute Distinguished Fellow at the New York Historical Society.

He received a first class honours degree in Modern History and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University. He was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Roberts of Belgravia in 2022.