Bio

Tomass Pildegovičs is a strategic communications expert with over five years of combined work and research experience in foreign policy, government affairs, project management, and stakeholder engagement. Tomass currently serves as Senior Expert at the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence. He has also been named a NATO 2030 Global Fellow. He is also a skilled commentator, moderator, panelist, and has contributed his expertise to the NATO Senior Communicators Conference, NATO's ''Emerging Threats in Social Media'' conference as well as working groups of the NATO Advisory and Liaison Team in Kosovo, the OECD Senior Expert Group on Communications, and the European Commission Joint Research Centre. In his previous role, he worked as a Policy Assistant in the European Parliament, advising on issues related to foreign interference in democratic processes, hybrid threats, and EU-Russia relations. Pildegovičs was selected as the 2022 Recipient of the European Union Studies Association Haas Fund Fellowship, as well as a 2021 GLOBSEC Young Leader in Security and Defence. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, where he also completed his MPhil in Politics and International Relations with Distinction in 2019. He also holds a BA in International Relations with First Class Honours (2018) from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.