Speaker Bio

Valbona Zeneli is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security’s Transatlantic Security Initiative. Zeneli is also a senior fellow for peace, security, and defense at Friends of Europe in Brussels, and a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. From 2011 to 2023, she served as a professor of national security studies and chair of strategic engagement at the US Department of Defense’s George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, where she continues her affiliation as a visiting adjunct professor.

Ms. Zeneli is a frequent lecturer and visiting professor at the NATO School in Oberammergau, the US Foreign Service Institute, the US Department of State, and defense academies across Europe.