Petr Tůma is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center. He is a Czech career diplomat currently serving as head for EU common security and defense policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague. He has an expertise on Europe, the Middle East, the Sahel, and transatlantic relations. He previously worked at Czech diplomatic missions in Washington, DC; Damascus; and Ramallah and Jerusalem. 

In parallel, Tůma is teaching international relations at Charles University in Prague. He earned his university degree in modern philosophy from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and served as a personal assistant to Paul Ricœur.