Jan-Werner Müller (born 1970) is a German political philosopher and historian of political ideas working at Princeton University.

[1] Müller has been invited scholar at Collegium Budapest – Institute of Advanced Study [de; hu], at the Remarque Institute of New York University, at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University as well as the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute in Florence.

He has also been invited professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

He is a co-founder of the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin.

[1] Müller regularly writes opinion pieces for mainstream publications, such as The Guardian,[2] Neue Zürcher Zeitung,[3][4][5][6][7] The New York Times,[8][9][10] Süddeutsche Zeitung,[11][12] Le Monde,[13][14][15] Project Syndicate,[16] The New York Review of Books,[17] the London Review of Books,[18] and more specialised publications such as Foreign Affairs,[19] Social Europe,[20] and Verfassungsblog.