David Shimer

David Shimer is an American historian and foreign policy analyst. He is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and an Associate Fellow at Yale University.

Shimer graduated from Yale University with bachelor's and master's degrees in history and was a Marshall Scholar and a Truman Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he received his doctorate in international relations.

Works
Shimer has reported for The New York Times from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.

In June 2020, Shimer published the book Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference (Knopf), a global history of foreign election interference.

The New York Times, in its review of Rigged, said the book was "extraordinary and gripping" and had "the insight of a superb work of history." Rigged was also positively reviewed by NPR, The Washington Post, and The Guardian, as well as by Anne Applebaum, William Joseph Burns, Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, Timothy Snyder, and Jake Sullivan.