On the eve of our STATE OF ASIA flagship conference and just one day after the U.S. presidential election, we are proud to host the third State of Asia Address with leading thinker Adam Tooze. He will deliver a broad assessment on the key issues and challenges facing Asia today, provide a view into the future of the region, and analyze the implications of the U.S. election results for Asia.

The State of Asia Address is hosted in collaboration with the University of Zurich at the prestigious Aula, where Winston Churchill gave his famous "Let Europe Arise" lecture in 1946. Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger, Vice President Faculty Affairs and Scientific Information of the University of Zurich, will deliver welcome remarks.

This event is open to the public and free of charge. Access is granted to registered guests on first-come, first-served basis. Please note that a ticket does not guarantee a seat for this event. 

Adam Tooze holds the Shelby Cullom Davis chair of History at Columbia University and serves as Director of the European Institute. In 2019, Foreign Policy Magazine named him one of the top Global Thinkers of the decade.
Adam was born in London. He grew up between England and Heidelberg Germany. Having received his BA in Economics from King’s College Cambridge in the summer of 1989, he had the good fortune to witness the end of the Cold War in Berlin, where he began his postgraduate studies. He went on to take his PhD from the London School of Economics. From 1996 to 2009 Adam taught at the University of Cambridge, where he was Reader in Modern History and Gurnee Hart fellow in History at Jesus College. After Cambridge, Adam was appointed to the Barton M. Biggs Professorship at Yale University, where he succeeded Paul Kennedy as the Director of International Security Studies. Adam joined Columbia’s history department in the summer of 2015. In February 2011 Adam served as Thomas Hawkins Johnson Visiting Professor in Military History at West Point.
Adam is the author of several books. His first book, Statistics and the German State: the Making of Modern Economic Knowledge appeared in 2001, Wages of Destruction: the Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy was published in 2006, Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of the Global Order 1916-1931 in 2014 and Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy in 2021. For these books Adam won the Leverhulme prize fellowship, the H-Soz-Kult Historisches Buch Prize, the Longman History Today Prize, the Wolfson Prize and the LA Times History Prize. He was shortlisted for the Kirkus review, Duff Cooper and Hessel Tiltman prize and his books have featured in the book of the year lists of the Financial Times, LA Times, Kirkus Review, Foreign Affairs and The Economist. Adam’s books have been translated into eleven languages.
Adam has appeared on PBS Television, BBC Radio, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, the History Channel, Swiss and French television. He has written and reviewed for numerous publication including the Financial Times, The Guardian, the New York Times, Die Zeit, Spiegel, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger, following his studies at the University of Zurich, worked as an assistant at the University's Institute of Criminology. He earned his doctoral degree in 1992 and, a year later, was admitted to the bar in the canton of Schaffhausen. From 1994 to 1999 Prof. Schwarzenegger was assistant professor for European law, comparative law, criminal law, and criminology at the universities of Niigata and Aichi in Japan. He then returned to UZH to take on the position of assistant professor with tenure-track. After completing his habilitation in 2008, Christian Schwarzenegger was appointed associate professor; in 2010 he was named full professor for criminal law, criminal procedure law, and criminology at UZH. He was dean of the Faculty of Law from 2012 to 2014.
Prof. Schwarzenegger's research focuses on victim surveys, family violence, and public perception of crime control as well as computer crime and cybercrime. He also conducts research projects on community crime prevention with the city of Zurich's police department.

This event is co-organized by the University of Zurich and Asia Society Switzerland.