Senior Fellow in Security and Defence Department. Former diplomat with many years of service in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, both in Warsaw and in Brussels. Member of the national team for accession talks with NATO in 1997, Political Counsellor at the Polish Permanent Delegation to NATO. From 1999 (until his retirement in 2020) an international civil servant at the NATO’s International Staff in Brussels. He worked in the Press Office and in different capacities in NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division. Between 2010 and 2015 he was the Director of the NATO Information Office in Moscow.
Previously Resident Fellow at the Casimir Pulaski Foundation, member of the editorial board of the Polish Diplomatic Review published by PISM, collaborator with the Defence24 portal, independent expert and writer, contributing numerous publications for a variety of think-tanks and institutions in Poland and abroad. Lectured at different courses and academic establishments, including NATO Defence College in Rome, College of Europe in Natolin, European Academy of Diplomacy. Frequent media commentator for Polish and foreign news outlets in Polish, English, Russian and French.
Graduate of the London School of Economics and the Warsaw University.
- international and European security and defence policy
- transatlantic security relations, in particular in the framework of NATO
- Russian domestic and foreign policy
- strategic communications and fight against disinformation
- hybrid threats
- The search for NATO’s new Secretary General – time for a candidate from Central Eastern Europe?, Expert’s Commentary, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, December 2023
- Quo Vadis Armenia? And why the answer matters to others, Expert’s Commentary, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, November 2023
- Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as a New Centre of Gravity: Recommendation on Strengthening Regional, European and Transatlantic Security (co-author), Warsaw Security Forum 2023 Annual Report, September 2023
- New political initiatives advertised in Bratislava and Chisinau have grabbed headlines in Europe – good reasons to cheer? Yes, but…, Expert’s Commentary, Casimir Pulaski Foundation, June 2023
- ‘The Geopolitical Holiday has Ended with a Bang on 24 February 2022’, Interview with the former Secretary General of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, The Polish Diplomatic Review, PISM, April 2023
- The consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for international security – NATO and beyond, NATO Review, July 2022
- Russia and NATO: How Did We Get Here and How Should We Respond?, Commentary, Royal United Services Institute, June 2022
- Inicjatywa Trójmorza w cieniu koncepcji europejskiej autonomii strategicznej, Analysis, Trimarium, May 2022
- Russia–NATO Relations: Crisis or Opportunity?, Commentary, Royal United Services Institute, November 2021
- ‘Relations between NATO and the Russian Federation: Where do we go from here? Ideas for the New Strategic Concept’ [in:] Dominik P. Jankowski, Tomasz Kowalik, Robert Pszczel, Tomasz Stępniewski, NATO’s Eastern Flank: Towards NATO 2022 Madrid Summit, Policy Paper, Institute of Central Europe, August 2021
- ‘Kto korzysta na polityce zagranicznej Rosji? Raczej nie zwykli Rosjanie – i co z tego wynika dla nas’, The Polish Diplomatic Review, PISM, May 2021, no. 2/2021, p. 117
- Dialogue with Russia: a checklist of 10 dos and don’ts, Clingendael Spectator, April 2021
- Like a rollercoaster..., NATO Review, February 2008