Flemming Rose, Senior fellow at Cato Institute, Washington DC, journalist and author.

Mr. Rose is a frequent contributor to international media. His work has appeared in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, the New Yorker, Die Welt, Der Spiegel, El Pais, Hufftington Post, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, and many more.

In 2016 Mr. Rose was awarded the prestigious Milton Friedman Prize for advancing liberty.

Mr. Rose has been a lecturer and speaker all over the world. He is the author of several books, such as “The Tyranny of Silence: How One Cartoon Ignited a Global Debate on the Future of Free Speech” (2010 in Danish and 2014 in English, it has also appeared in Russian, Norwegian and Spanish), which in 2014 was listed among the 10 best non-fiction books by The Economist, “Hymn to Freedom” (2015) and “The Possessed” (2016), for which Mr. Rose recently received the Weekendavisen’s Literary Prize.

Mr. Rose has spent 14 years abroad as a foreign correspondent in Moscow and Washington D.C. In 2004, he returned to Denmark to become the culture and later foreign editor of Jyllands-Posten, Denmark’s leading newspaper.

Mr. Rose graduated in Russian language and literature from University of Copenhagen, and he worked as a translator of Russian literature before he became a journalist.