Geoffrey Stern | |
|---|---|
 Stern in 1995 | |
| Born | 5 February 1935 |
| Died | 3 October 2005 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Academic, broadcaster, composer |
| Children | Jonty Stern and Tiffany Stern |
| Academic background | |
| Education | London School of Economics (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Notable students | Richard Perle |
| Main interests | International Communism |
Geoffrey Howard Stern (5 February 1935 - 3 October 2005) was an English academic who was a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). [1]
He was also a radio personality and presented the programmes 24 Hours and Newshour on the BBC World Service. [2]
An expert in International Communism,he was much in demand on radio and television shows at the deaths of Leonid Brezhnev,Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko and at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Geoffrey was also a composer [3] and as a teenager he was in fairly regular contact with composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
His son is former "Big Brother" contestant Jonty Stern and his daughter is theatre historian Tiffany Stern.