Misha Glenny

Biography

Michael V. E. "Misha" Glenny is an English journalist and broadcaster, specializing in southeast Europe, global organized crime, and cybersecurity. He has been Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) in Vienna, Austria since 2022. He is the son of Juliet Mary Crum and Michael Glenny, a Russian studies academic and translator. His parents separated when he was 13. Glenny described his ancestry as "three-quarters Anglo-Celtic and a quarter Jewish". His parents moved from London to Oxford, where he was educated at Magdalen College School. He studied Drama and German at the University of Bristol before attending Prague's Charles University. He is multilingual, speaking English, German, Serbo-Croat, Czech and Portuguese.