Mark Boris Andrijanič

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  • Visiting Policy Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute
  • Vice President of International Markets, Kumo.AI

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UkraineAlert

Jul 14, 2025

A Western-funded drone surge could end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

By Mark Boris Andrijanič

Ukraine has the technology, talent, and industrial potential to prevail in the war with Russia, but currently lacks the funding to scale drone production to the necessary levels, writes Mark Boris Andrijanič.

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New Atlanticist

Nov 3, 2023

Dispatch from Bletchley Park: Where does transatlantic AI cooperation stand?

By Mark Boris Andrijanič, Nicole Lawler

Politicians and business leaders just met outside of London for a summit on how to regulate artificial intelligence. Here’s how to take the collaboration to the next level.

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Mark Boris Andrijanič is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center, where he focuses on transatlantic technology cooperation, digital government, and defense innovation. He is a visiting policy fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, and a board member and advisor to leading companies in artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, and quantum computing. He serves on the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology.

From 2023 to 2025, he served as vice president for international markets at Kumo AI, a Sequoia Capital-backed predictive AI company acquired by NVIDIA.

In 2021–2022, he served as Slovenia’s first minister for digital transformation, after chairing the government’s Strategic Council for Digitalization. During Slovenia’s EU Council Presidency, he led negotiations on the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act. Under his leadership, Slovenia rose from sixteenth to eleventh on the European Digital Economy and Society Index.

He previously led Uber’s public policy across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). He received Ukraine’s Peace Prize from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2022 and was named CEE’s Digital Leader of the Year in 2023. He was also a 2017 millennium fellow at the Atlantic Council. He holds degrees from the University of Ljubljana and the University of Oxford. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and serves on its Global Future Council on GovTech.