Piotr Szymański
Piotr Szymański
Senior Fellow
Security and Defence Department

Analyst at the Security and Defence Department. At the OSW since 2015, first in the Security and Defence in Northern Europe Project, then in the Regional Security Programme. In 2022-2024 he worked in the bureau of the Swiss Federal Office for Customs and Border Security at the Embassy of Switzerland in Warsaw (with accreditation for Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Frontex). 

Graduate of the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw (majoring in Security and Strategic Studies). Project co-investigator in the Sonata grant of Poland’s National Science Centre – The Sense of Mission in Russian Foreign Policy. 

Expertise
  • NATO’s defence and deterrence 

  • security and defence policy of the main NATO member states 

  • security in the Nordic-Baltic region 

Major publications