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Place of Birth: Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
About Odd Arne Westad
- 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 Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University, where he teaches in the Yale History Department and in the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs.
- Previously, Westad held the S.T.
- Lee Chair of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University, teaching in the John F.
- Kennedy School of Government.
- Westad has also taught at LSE, where he served as director of LSE IDEAS.
- In the spring semester 2019 Westad was Boeing Company Chair in International Relations at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University.
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