Alexander Mirtchev is a vice chair of the Atlantic Council and a member of the Council’s Executive Board of Directors and the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security’s Security Advisory Council. An academic, executive, and philanthropist, Mirtchev is a distinguished visiting professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Government and Policy.

Previously, Mirtchev served as a vice president of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) for Defense and Security in the United Kingdom and was also the executive chairman of RUSI International. He is a founding member of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where he was also a member of the Wilson National Cabinet and a senior fellow. His 2021 study, “The Prologue: The Alternative Energy Megatrend in the Age of Great Power Competition,” has been published in several languages.

Mirtchev has also chaired a high-end risk mitigation services joint venture with a NASDAQ-listed corporation, served as chairman and independent director of both a sustainable development fund and a sovereign wealth fund, and was a director at a leading Washington, DC, law firm specializing in World Trade Organization negotiations.

Mirtchev is the curator of the Hellenistic Tanagra Figurine Educational Initiative. He is also a member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Chatham House, and the James Madison Council of the Library of US Congress. Mirtchev has an LLM in international and comparative law from George Washington University and a PhD in philosophy from St. Kliment Ohridski University.