Odd Arne Westad
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Odd Arne Westad January 5, 1960 |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Oslo |
| Occupation | ST Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations John F. Kennedy School of Government |
| Known for | International relations Diplomacy Asia History |
| Website | oaw.cn |
Odd Arne Westad FBA (born 5 January 1960) is a Norwegian historian specializing in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. He is the ST Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University, teaching in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Westad is also a Senior Scholar at the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies. Previously he was School Professor of International History at LSE, where he also served as director of LSE IDEAS.
After studying as an undergraduate at the University of Oslo, Westad attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to work on his Ph.D under Professor Michael H. Hunt. He was appointed Director of Research at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Oslo in 1991. In 1998, he left Oslo to join the International History Department at the LSE, where he also worked in the LSE Asia Research Centre before becoming Head of Department in 2003.
While at LSE, Westad set up LSE IDEAS, the LSE's centre for international affairs, diplomacy and strategy, together with Professor Michael Cox in 2008. Westad speaks and writes in a number of languages, including his native Norwegian, English, French, German, Mandarin and Russian. He is a very well known lecturer in several countries, both on history and on contemporary international affairs, especially with regard to China and East Asia.
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