Oliver Kamm

Profile: Full name: Oliver Kamm Area of interest: Politics, World Affairs Journals/Organisation: The Times Email: oliver.kamm@tiscali.co.uk | oliver.kamm@thetimes.co.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/profile/Oliver-Kamm | Comment is free Blog: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/blogs/oliver-kamm Representation: Networks: http://twitter.com/#!/oliverkamm

Biography: About: Oliver Kamm (born 1963) is a British writer and journalist. He wrote Anti-Totalitarianism: The Left-wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy (2005), an advocacy of interventionism in foreign policy. He is a leader writer and columnist for The Times. Education: New College, Oxford and Birkbeck College, University of London Career: Went into a career in the Bank of England and the securities industry, including as the Head of Strategic Research at Commerzbank Global Equities in London. He helped start a pan-European investment bank in 1997. Oliver Kamm is an author and Times columnist. His writings have appeared also in The Guardian, Prospect, The New Republic, Index on Censorship and The Jewish Chronicle. His book Anti-Totalitarianism: The Left-Wing Case for a Neoconservative Foreign Policy was published in 2005. He was a contributor to Britain’s Bomb: What Next?, edited by Brian Wicker and General Sir Hugh Beach, in 2006. He is a founder and partner of an asset management and advisory firm, WMG Advisors LLP, based in London. (ref. globalstrategyforum.org) Current position/role: The Times: Leader writer and Columnist also writes/has written for: The Guardian, Prospect, The New Republic, Index on Censorship and The Jewish Chronicle Other roles/Main role: Was an advisory editor of the online journal Democratiya Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Response to Johann Hari on 'Catholofascism' - influence of the Opus Dei organisation Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Iain Dale: Oliver Kamm Pulls Up the Ladder, on Oliver Kamm's criticism of blogging Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other: HIs mother is the translator Anthea Bell; Journalist, ex-MP Martin Bell is his uncle; author/farmer - as well first compiler of The Times crossword - Adrian Bell, was his grandfather

Books & Debate: Anti-Totalitarianism - the left-wing case for a neoconservative foreign policy OCLC 62899932 (pub. Social Affairs Unit, 2005) Latest work: Britain's bomb : what next? OCLC 76970268, 2006 (contributor) Speaking/Appearances: Current debate:http://www.intelligencesquared.com/people/k/oliver-kamm

The Times: Column name: Remit/Info: Section: Role: Leader writer, Columnist, Blogger Pen-name: Email: oliver.kamm@thetimes.co.uk Website: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/profile/Oliver-Kamm Commissioning editor: Day published: Regularity: Column format: Average length:

Articles: Dogmatic line on tax to blame - The US is close to defaulting on its debts because President Obama and congressional leaders cannot agree on how to get the country’s borrowing under control - 28th July 2011 The greatest crimes seen in Europe since 1945 - The Bosnian war of 1992-95 was the most destructive conflict in Europe since 1945 and was marked by the greatest crimes - 27th May 2011 Captivating subject needs to change with the times - Oxford’s Faculty of Theology insists that its core subject matter of biblical studies, doctrine and church history remains intact. But it is hard to avoid inferring that the faculty’s ferment is further evidence of the cultural decline of Christianity - 20th May 2011 Lessons from the Latin American crisis - Portugal is only the latest eurozone country to be mired in a debt crisis - 9th April 2011 Element of surprise poses greatest threat - The greatest risk in security planning is to overlook the source of future threats - 31st January 2011 Put up interest rates now, or risk big trouble - The full effect of quantitative easing has not yet been felt in our economy. When it is, inflation will begin to gallop - 10th January 2011 Put capital gains tax on all homes - We must break the superstition that a home leads to riches - 28th May 2010 A rediscovered play adds to the Bard’s shifting reputation - Shakespeare was not of an age but for all time. Every generation comes to him anew - 16th March 2010 Ignore the doom-mongers. The euro’s end is not nigh - Despite the air of crisis, no country is about to leave the single currency and there would be real benefits if Britain joined - 13th January 2010 Committed to free expression? What nonsense - Yale has acted cravenly over images of Muhammad - 28th September 2009 We should praise, not punish, the moneymakers - The mayor of London is right to defend hedge funds - 10th July 2009 Blame incompetent bankers, not the rules - It's not special pleading when Alistair Darling claims that the fault lies with bank boards rather than the regulators - 18th June 2009 Toxic effect of these golden goodbyes - With the world in recession, inequality in unemployment is becoming at least as potent a political issue as inequality in income - 28th February 2009 Learning the right lessons - This crisis is not a total failure of world capitalism - nothing will be achieved by a retreat into nationalism - 19th February 2009 Long live the euro - The Euro's detractors have been proved wrong. We would be better off if we were part of the eurozone - 1st January 2009 America is still the world's policeman - The world benefits hugely from America's global dominance. Long may their involvement last - 30th October 2008 Plunging markets are far from irrational - There is a simple explanation for falls in share prices - investors fear a depression is coming - 28th October 2008 Bankers: No one likes them and we don't care - 14th October 2008 In defence of the herd of greedy pigs - Everyone is blaming short-sellers. But they are not the cause of the chaos, just its messengers - 23rd September 2008 Nato has betrayed its great record - 4th April 2008 Good riddance to Castro. But what next? - 9th January 2008

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