Linas Kojala is the CEO of the Geopolitics and Security Studies Center and a lecturer in International Relations at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University (VU IIRPS). He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council. A widely recognized commentator on international affairs, his analyses have appeared in CNN, Chicago Tribune, Politico, BBC, Die Welt, and Berlingske. In 2023, Kojala was honored as a Munich Young Leader by the Munich Security Conference and the Körber Foundation and received the Titanium Award from DELFI for his foreign policy commentary. Kojala was nominated to participate in the young Leaders’ programs of Japan, France, and other countries. He has been consistently ranked among Lithuania’s top three most influential public figures, placing second in 2024. The author of two books on European politics and U.S. foreign policy, he holds degrees from VU IIRPS (BA, MA), Oxford University (Postgraduate Diploma), and an MBA from the University of Cambridge. He received a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship and was a scholar at Harvard University.

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

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

Ans. Col. Gintaras Bagdonas is a former NATO Military Staff Representative in Georgia, Head of the Lithuanian Special Mission in Afghanistan, and Director of Intelligence at the EU Military Staff.