Kiran Klaus Patel
Kiran Klaus Patel (born 3 October 1971) is a German-British historian. He holds a Chair at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich], and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Education and career 
Patel studied history at the University of Freiburg and at Humboldt University of Berlin.

He is currently a professor and chair  at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, after having held chairs at Maastricht University (2011-2019) and at the European University Institute in Florence. Moreover, He spent the academic year 2014-15 as visiting professor at the London School of Economics. His book, The New Deal: A Global History, won the WHA Bentley Book Prize, awarded by the World History Association. In 2018, Patel published a history of the European Union that attracted a lot of media attention in Germany. In 2019 Patel became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Other activities
 Willy Brandt Foundation, Member of the International Advisory Board
 Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte, Munich, Member of the Advisory Board
 Contemporary European History, Member of the Editorial Board
 Geschichte und Gesellschaft, Member of the Editorial Board
 Monde(s). Histoire - Espaces- relations, Member of the Editorial Board

Selected publications 

His books include:

 Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Fertile ground for Europe? The history of European Integration and the Common Agricultural Policy since 1945 (Baden Baden: Nomos, 2009).
The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century: Competition and Convergence (with Christof Mauch) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
 The Cultural Politics of Europe: European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s  (London: Routledge, 2013).
 European Integration and the Atlantic Community in the 1980s  (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Historical Foundations of EU Competition Law (with  Heike Schweitzer) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
The New Deal: A Global History  (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).
Projekt Europa: Eine kritische Geschichte (Munich: Beck, 2018).