Dr Tomasz Smura is Member of the Board and Director of the International Security and Defence Programme at the Casimir Pulaski Foundation as well as Programme Director of the Warsaw Security Forum Defence Track.
He defended his PhD thesis at University of Warsaw and is a graduate of the Institute of International Relations of UW. He previously studied also at the University of Nottingham and was visiting fellow at Institute of International Relations of National Changhi University Taiwan (scholarship of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan). His doctoral dissertation concerned the regional security in East Asia and his research interests concentrate on international security, especially NATO, US foreign and security policy and East Asia.
Tomasz Smura has worked as a Director of Strategy and International Cooperation Office at the strategic state-owned company and was gathering experience at, amongst others, the Department of Strategy and Planning, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Polish Institute for International Affairs.