Tomas Valasek

Biography

Tomas Valasek is director of foreign policy and defence at the Centre for European Reform. He has written extensively on transatlantic relations, common European foreign and security policy, NATO and on defence industry issues.

Previously, he served as policy director and as head of policy planning at the Slovak ministry of defence (2006-2007). Before joining the government Tomas 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.

Tomas is the author of ‘Surviving austerity: The case for a new approach to EU military collaboration’ (CER report, May 2011), co-author of ‘NATO, new allies and reassurance’ (CER policy brief, May 2010) and ‘Stopping the drift: Recalibrating the transatlantic relationship for a multipolar age’ (Centre for European Studies, 2010); among many other publications. His articles appeared in newspapers and journals including the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

Tomas is also external advisor to the Slovak minister defence, and he serves on the advisory board of the Slovak Atlantic Committee and on the editorial board of Panoráma bezpečnostného prostredia, a Slovak defence policy journal.