Mykhailo Samus

After 20 years in media as well as in security and defence analysis and consultancy, Mykhailo is an experienced researcher in the sphere of international relations, national resilience and new generation warfare. He served 12 years in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and gained his Master’s Degree in International Journalism from the Institute of Journalism, Kyiv Shevchenko National University (2007).

Having started his career as a journalist at Defence Express, he became the Editor-in-Chief of the Export Control Newsletter magazine, and then the Deputy Director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies. He was the founder (2009) of the EU CACDS office in Prague (Czech Republic) and was responsible for the coordination of CACDS international activities, its regional sections, and projects with NATO and the EU.

Now, Mykhailo is the chief of a new international project – The New Geopolitics Research Network. Since 2023, Mykhailo has been a Non-Resident Senior Expert at New Strategy Centre (Romania).