Ambassador Vytautas Leškevičius is a nonresident fellow at the Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Atlantic Council‘s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He currently serves as the ministerial chief adviser on international and strategic affairs at the Lithuanian Ministry of Transport and Communications.

With a career spanning over twenty-five years in Lithuania’s diplomacy he has held various roles, including Lithuania’s permanent representative to NATO and the Council of Europe, and director of security policy and transatlantic relations, political director, and deputy minister at the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His work focuses on international security, defense, resilience, economic diplomacy, and transatlantic relations. He has participated in key negotiations shaping NATO, European Union (EU) security and defense, resilience, and international arms control policies.

Throughout his career, Leškevičius has supported Lithuania’s foreign policy, advised on EU and NATO strategic initiatives, and engaged in crisis management and, lately, military mobility and resilience matters. He also led a 1,500-person team that helped guide Lithuania through its first-ever presidency of the Council of the EU and was principal coordinator of EU affairs during the Lithuanian EU Council presidency. He also continues to work on complex issues relating to geopolitical risks, resilience, and sanctions implementation.

He holds a BA in philosophy from Vilnius University and a master‘s degree from Vilnius Tech University. He is a PhD candidate at the Culture Research Institute of Lithuania.