Andrew A. Michta
Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security in Washington, DC.
Andrew A. Michta is recognized as a leading voice in transatlantic security and defense policy. Prior to joining the Atlantic Council, he was the former dean of the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. He holds a PhD in international relations from Johns Hopkins University and is an expert in international security, NATO, and European politics, with a particular focus on Central Europe and the Baltic states.

Throughout his career, he has held key academic and research positions, including professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College and senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund and the Center for European Policy Analysis. He has also been affiliated with Harvard University’s Center for European Studies and Stanford’s Hoover Institution.

Michta has written extensively on European security and NATO, with notable works such as The Limits of Alliance: The United States, NATO and the EU in North and Central Europe and The Future of NATO: Regional Defense and Global Security. His research and policy contributions focus on transatlantic relations, defense strategy, and security challenges in post-communist Europe. He’s fluent in Polish and Russian, and proficient in German and French.

Elisenda Calvet Martínez
Professor of International Public Law. University Of Barcelona
Elisenda Calvet Martínez is a professor of public international law at the University of Barcelona (UB), where she also serves as Assistant to the Vice-Dean of Research and International Relations and as Coordinator of the Legal Clinic for the Fight Against Impunity.

Elisenda has held roles in the Spanish Red Cross, the Síndic de Greuges, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. She is an active member of several international academic organizations and has conducted research at institutions such as the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), Carlos III University of Madrid, and the Pedro Arrupe Institute of Human Rights focusing on transitional justice, human rights, and international humanitarian and criminal law. Her recent publications include Transitional Justice in the Context of the War in Ukraine, The Global Practice of Systematic Enforced Disappearances of Children in International Law, and Sexual Violence as Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples: The Case of Mayan Women in Guatemala.