James Pettifer is a British academic, author and journalist who has specialised in Balkan affairs.
He was born in 1949 in Hereford and was educated at King's School, Worcester, and Hertford College, Oxford.
Pettifer has travelled extensively in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans and he has written several tourist guides to the region, including the Blue Guide to Albania and Kosovo, one of the few such guides to the area. In the media, he has reported mainly for The Times and the Wall Street Journal and he is a regular broadcaster and commentator on the Balkan countries on both radio and television.
His expertise has been employed academically. He was a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford, from 1993 to 1996 and a Visiting Professor in the Institute of Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki) He is currently teaching Balkan history at St Cross College,Oxford and in the Oxford University History Faculty
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