He is a former senior editor of the British weekly The Economist and is a non-resident senior analyst at CEPA.

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.

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

Researcher at the ReThink.CEE programme of the German Marshall Fund in the USA and former Head of Communication and Development at the European Humanities University. His research focuses on Belarusian processes.