Bart M.J. Szewczyk

Visiting Senior Fellow, GMF of the US

Warsaw Security Forum

Dr. Bart Szewczyk advises at Covington & Burling on European and global public policy, particularly on technology, economic sanctions and asset seizure, and trade and foreign investment. He also teaches grand strategy as an adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris and is a nonresident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund. He was recently selected by EUInsider as Who to Follow in 2024 in Foreign Affairs and Defence. Bart recently worked as Advisor on Global Affairs at the European Commission's think-tank, where he covered a wide range of foreign policy issues, including international order, defense, geoeconomics, transatlantic relations, Russia and Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa, and China and Asia. Previously, between 2014 and 2017, he served as Member of Secretary John Kerry’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, where he covered Europe, Eurasia, and global economic affairs. From 2016 to 2017, he also concurrently served as Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, where he worked on refugee policy. He joined the U.S. government from teaching at Columbia Law School, as one of two academics selected nationwide for the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship. He has also consulted for the World Bank and Rasmussen Global. Prior to government, Bart was an Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, where he worked on international law and U.S. foreign relations law. Before academia, he taught international law and international organizations at George Washington University Law School, and served as a visiting fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies. He also clerked at the International Court of Justice for Judges Peter Tomka and Christopher Greenwood and at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit for the late Judge Leonard Garth. Bart holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University.

Bart M.J. Szewczyk

Visiting Senior Fellow, GMF of the US

Warsaw Security Forum

Dr. Bart Szewczyk advises at Covington & Burling on European and global public policy, particularly on technology, economic sanctions and asset seizure, and trade and foreign investment. He also teaches grand strategy as an adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris and is a nonresident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund. He was recently selected by EUInsider as Who to Follow in 2024 in Foreign Affairs and Defence. Bart recently worked as Advisor on Global Affairs at the European Commission's think-tank, where he covered a wide range of foreign policy issues, including international order, defense, geoeconomics, transatlantic relations, Russia and Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa, and China and Asia. Previously, between 2014 and 2017, he served as Member of Secretary John Kerry’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, where he covered Europe, Eurasia, and global economic affairs. From 2016 to 2017, he also concurrently served as Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, where he worked on refugee policy. He joined the U.S. government from teaching at Columbia Law School, as one of two academics selected nationwide for the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship. He has also consulted for the World Bank and Rasmussen Global. Prior to government, Bart was an Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, where he worked on international law and U.S. foreign relations law. Before academia, he taught international law and international organizations at George Washington University Law School, and served as a visiting fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies. He also clerked at the International Court of Justice for Judges Peter Tomka and Christopher Greenwood and at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit for the late Judge Leonard Garth. Bart holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University.