Linas Kojala is CEO of the Geopolitics and Security Studies Center and Associate Professor of Partnership at Vilnius University. He is also a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council.

His columns has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, CNN, FAZ, Foreign Policy, and other international media. He was named a Munich Young Leader by the Munich Security Conference and the Körber Foundation, and has received DELFI’s Titanium Award as well as the Social Media Influencers’ Award for foreign-policy commentary. He is also a recipient of the Finnish state decoration – Knight First Class of the Order of the Lion of Finland.