Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman

Lieutenant Colonel Alexander S. Vindman (U.S. Army, Ret.) was most recently the director for European affairs on the White House’s National Security Council. Prior to retiring from the U.S Army, he served as a foreign area officer with assignments in the U.S. embassies in Kyiv, Ukraine and Moscow, Russia, and for the Joint Chiefs of Staff as a political and military affairs officer. His insights are especially intriguing given his three years in Russia with regular contact with Russian military leaders and access to their defense and security apparatus. Lt. Col. Vindman’s knowledge of the inner workings of both the military and White House make him uniquely qualified as an expert on Putin’s obsession with controlling Ukraine.

Lt. Col. Vindman’s personal discipline was “born in discovering the unique passion that begins in excitement, develops in response to intense demands, inspires creative solutions, results in satisfaction, and leads to further challenges.” He is currently a doctoral student and a Foreign Policy Institute fellow at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, a Pritzker military fellow at the Lawfare Institute, a board member of the Renew Democracy Initiative nonprofit, and a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House.

A uniquely qualified expert who provided renowned testimony during former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, Lt. Col. Vindman travels the globe providing insights about the ongoing war in Ukraine and Putin’s misguided efforts to once again establish Russia as a superpower.