Linas Kojala is CEO of the Geopolitics and Security Studies Center and Associate Professor of Partnership at Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Science (VU IIRPS). He is also a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council. A prominent voice on international affairs, his commentary has appeared in CNN, BBC, Chicago Tribune, FAZ, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere. He was named a Munich Young Leader by the Munich Security Conference and the Körber Foundation and received DELFI’s Titanium Award for foreign policy commentary. He has taken part in young leaders’ programs in Japan, France, and elsewhere. Consistently ranked among Lithuania’s top three most influential public figures, he placed second in 2025. Kojala is the author of two books on European politics and U.S. foreign policy. He holds a BA and MA in International Relations from VU IIRPS, a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Business from Oxford University, and an MBA from University of Cambridge. As a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, he was a scholar at Harvard University.

Project manager with experience in national and international project management. Aactively engaged with and researches the history and politics of the Western Balkan states

Andrius Prokhorenko is responsible for international projects on hybrid threats, information warfare and developments in the Eastern Partnership countries.

Professor, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University.