Andrew Roberts is a prize-winning, internationally-recognized historian, biographer, New York Times best-selling author and keynote speaker. As well as appearing regularly on British and American television and radio, Dr. Roberts writes for and reviews history books and biographies for The Sunday Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal and The National Review. With the publication of his book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 (Harper Perennial), Roberts was invited to deliver the prestigious White House Lecture in 2007. His latest book, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, won the British Army Military Book of the Year Award and was featured on MSNBC and Fox & Friends, and quickly became a New York Times best-seller. In April 2011, he presented NBC’s coverage of the Royal Wedding with Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera. Dr. Roberts has given keynote speeches to hundreds of highly esteemed organizations, including Barclay’s Capital 9/11 Memorial Garden Dinner, the Blenheim Palace Literary Festival, the English-Speaking Union, Hilton Hotels, the Institute of Economic Affairs, Oxford University, and international literary festivals and museums.

Roberts is active in public policy programs and sits on the boards or advisory councils of a number of think-tanks and pressure groups, including The Centre for Policy Studies, The European Foundation, The Centre for Social Cohesion, The United Kingdom National Defence Association, The Freedom Association, the British Weights and Measures Association, and The Bruges Group. He is a Director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation in New York, a founding member of President Jose Maria Aznar’s Friends of Israel Committee (alongside Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa and Alejandro Toledo), and in 2010, Roberts chaired the Hessell-Tiltman Award for Non-Fiction.

His biography The Holy Fox, which focused on Neville Chamberlain’s and Winston Churchill’s foreign secretary, the Earl of Halifax, was published in 1991, to be followed by the controversial, but no less well-received, Eminent Churchillians in 1994. In 1999 he published Salisbury: Victorian Titan, the authorized biography of the Victorian prime minister the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, which won the Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction. In 2001 Napoleon and Wellington, an investigation into the relationship between the two great generals, was the lead review in all but one of Britain’s national newspapers. 2003 saw the publication of Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership, which coincided with Roberts’s four-part BBC2 history series. In 2004, he edited What Might Have Been, a collection of twelve “What If?” essays written by distinguished historians. In 2005 Roberts published Waterloo: The Battle for Modern Europe.

Roberts is a judge on the Elizabeth Longford Historical Biography Prize, chaired the Conservative Party’s Advisory Panel on the Teaching of History in School, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has also been elected a Fellow of the Napoleonic Institute and an Honorary Member of the International Churchill Society (UK). He is a Trustee of the Margaret Thatcher Archive Trust and of the Roberts Foundation.

Roberts holds an honorary doctorate from Westminster College, Missouri, and will be receiving a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in early 2011. He has two children, Henry and Cassia, and lives in Manhattan with his wife, Susan Gilchrist.