Prof. Andrew A. Michta
Professor of Strategic Studies, University of Florida · Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
Andrew A. Michta is one of the foremost Western authorities on NATO, European security, and the geopolitics of Central Europe and the Baltic states. He advises Balnord on the strategic and defence architecture shaping the fund's investment thesis in the Baltic Sea region.
Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Florida's Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He is the former dean of the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, having spent over three decades at the intersection of transatlantic policy, NATO strategy, and European security. His areas of expertise include international security, NATO, and European politics and security, with a special focus on Central Europe and the Baltic states. He was previously a senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and founding director of the GMFUS Warsaw office, and Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. He holds a PhD in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.