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 and Non-Resident Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

A prominent voice on international affairs, his commentary has appeared in CNN, BBC, Politico, Die Welt, Chicago Tribune, 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 2024. 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 prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, he was a scholar at Harvard University.