Tomas Valasek

Director of Foreign Policy and Defense, Centre for European Reform

Tomas Valasek is director of foreign policy and defence at the Centre for European Reform; a private, London-based, think-tank. Previously, he served as policy director and head of policy planning at the Slovak ministry of defence (2006-2007). Before joining the government, Mr Valasek founded and directed the Brussels office of the World Security Institute (WSI), a Washington-based defence think-tank (2002-2006). From 1996 to 2002 he worked as senior Europe analyst in WSI’s Washington office. Mr. Valasek is the author or co-author of ‘NATO, new allies and reassurance’ (CER policy brief, May 2010), ‘Why Ukraine matters to Europe’ (CER essay, 2009), co-author of ‘Preparing for the multipolar world: European foreign and security policy in 2020’ (CER essay, 2007) as well as many other articles appearing in newspapers and journals including the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. Mr Valasek serves on the advisory board of the Slovak Atlantic Committee and on the editorial boards of Panoráma bezpečnostného prostredia and Strategické štúdie, Slovak defence policy journals.