Dr. Dean Vuletic is a historian of contemporary Europe who specialises in the Eurovision Song Contest, including as a prominent media commentator and public speaker. He began teaching the world’s first university course on Eurovision at New York University; as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Intra-European Fellow at the University of Vienna, he then led a groundbreaking research project on the history of Eurovision. He holds a PhD in modern European history from Columbia University.