The President of ISMS 2024, Professor Kjell Engelbrekt, Swedish Defence University

 Kjell Engelbrekt is Professor of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University, Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Lifetime Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences. He has been a visiting scholar at the European University Institute, the Humboldt-Universität, Columbia University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and between 2016 and 2021 he held a visiting professorship at Stockholm University. Engelbrekt has published in journals such as European Foreign Affairs Review, European Law Journal, The European Legacy, Ethnopolitics, Global Affairs, Global Governance, Global Policy och International Politics. Recent books are: High Table Diplomacy: The Reshaping of International Security Institutions (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2016) and Bulgarian Democratic Institutions at Thirty: A Balance Sheet (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020), coedited with Petia Kostadinova. He is also a coauthor of Digital Media and the Dynamics of Civil Society: Retooling Citizenship in the New EU Democracies (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), published 2021.