Ambassador Vytautas Leškevičius is a nonresident fellow at the Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Atlantic Council‘s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

Ambassador Leskevicius has a career spanning over twenty-five years in security and defense policy, EU affairs, and analytical centers. He has held numerous positions, including Lithuania’s permanent representative to NATO and to the Council of Europe. His work focuses on international security, defense, resilience, and transatlantic relations. He has participated in key negotiations shaping NATO and EU security and defense postures, as well as international arms control regimes.

Throughout his career, Leskevicius has supported Lithuania’s foreign policy, advised on NATO and EU strategic initiatives, and contributed to crisis management, military mobility, and resilience matters. As a chief policy analyst with the Geopolitics and Security Studies Center—a Lithuanian think tank—and a collaborator at the Lithuanian Military Academy’s Center for Defense Analysis, he continues to work on complex issues related to geopolitical challenges, NATO, transatlantic affairs, security and defense, and resilience strategies.

He holds a BA in philosophy from Vilnius University and a master’s degree from Vilnius
Tech University.