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Flemming Rose

Senior Fellow

Flemming Rose is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He previously served as foreign affairs editor and culture editor at the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. During his tenure as culture editor, Rose was principally responsible for the September 2005 publication of the cartoons that initiated the Muhammad cartoons controversy in early 2006.

Since then, Rose has been an international advocate for freedom of speech and is the author of several books, including The Tyranny of Silence, published by the Cato Institute in 2014.

From 1980 to 1996, Rose was the Moscow correspondent for the newspaper Berlingske Tidende. Between 1996 and 1999, he was that newspaper’s correspondent in Washington, DC. In 2015, Rose was awarded the prestigious Publicist Prize from Denmark’s national press club and received the Norwegian Fritt Ord Foundation’s Honor Award for defending free speech. In 2016, he received the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty from the Cato Institute. He lives in Denmark and speaks widely in Europe and elsewhere.

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