Arnulf Baring is a lawyer, journalist, political scientist, contemporary historian and author. He earned a doctorate at the Free University of Berlin in 1958. In 1968 he was invited by Henry Kissinger to teach at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, and the following year, he was appointed as Professor at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught until his retirement in 1998. He worked at the Bundespräsidialamt (Office of the German President) from 1976 to 1979. He was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton 1992-1993 and was a Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford 1993-1994. He received the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) in 1998. Baring is a founding member of the Förderverein der Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen and the scientific advisory board of the Centre Against Expulsions.