George Szamuely

George Szamuely (born 1954) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute of London Metropolitan University. He was a frequent columnist for the Taki's Top Drawer pages of the New York Press. Szamuely has also written for Antiwar.com, Counterpunch, Commentary, The Observer and the Centre for Research on Globalization. He is a frequent contributor to the RT show CrossTalk.

He was born in Hungary, his father being Tibor Szamuely (1925–1972) and his great-uncle the Communist revolutionary Tibor Szamuely (1890–1919), and he was educated in England at University College London and at the London School of Economics. He received a PhD from London Metropolitan University. He worked for some years as an editor at the Times Literary Supplement and at The National Law Journal. He was also a weekly columnist at the New York Press.

Szamuely was arrested on October 5, 1999, for having 570 overdue library books from the New York University campus library, many of them rare or out of print and most of them related to political science, which he refused to return after repeated warnings. His fines ran up to $31,000, although this was allegedly the cost of replacing them.

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