Archie Brown is an Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of numerous books and articles on political leadership, Communism, and the Cold War, including The Rise and Fall of Communism (2009); The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age (2014; Korean translation 2017); and, most recently, The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War (2020). In the 1980s, Professor Brown took part, as an outside expert, in several British government seminars on developments in the Soviet (and on British-Soviet relations), chaired by Margaret Thatcher. It was from Archie Brown in 1983 that Prime Minister Thatcher first learned of Mikhail Gorbachev as a likely future, reform-minded Soviet leader.