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A. Wess Mitchell

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A. Wess Mitchell is Co-Founder and Director of Research at CEPA, where he manages the Center’s analytical output and leads in the conceptual development of the institute.

The author of numerous publications, Mitchell is a frequent contributor to leading U.S. and European newspapers and journals, including The National Interest, Harper’s Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Times, Internationale Politik, and Gazeta Wyborcza. His articles and interviews have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including Polish, German, Czech, Russian, Hungarian and Romanian.

Mitchell’s interests include U.S.-Central European security relations, NATO and the European Union in U.S. foreign policy. He is a regular speaker at transatlantic policy conferences, and has studied, lived and traveled extensively in Europe. At CEPA, he is the creator and Editor-in-Chief of Central Europe Digest – Washington’s only periodical exclusively dedicated to Central Europe. He is also a member of the CEPA Board of Directors, as well as the American Board of Directors of the Berlin-based Atlantic Initiative.

Prior to helping form CEPA, Mitchell was an analyst at the National Center for Policy Analysis and worked in the office of Texas Congressman Larry Combest. He holds an undergraduate degree in History (Political Science/German); a Master’s Degree in German and European Studies (International Relations/Comparative Politics) from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service; and a Graduate Certificate from the American Consortium on European Union Studies. At Georgetown, Mitchell studied under the late Greg Flynn and was selected for the Presidential Management Fellowship and 2004 Hopper Award. His languages include German and Dutch, and he is currently studying Czech.

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