Chris Kremidas-Courtney is a lecturer and futurist on hybrid threats, resilience, and global strategy for the Institute for Security Governance, senior researcher for the US Naval Postgraduate School, senior advisor for Defend Democracy and Factcheck Greece, and member of the civil experts groups for NATO, the Hybrid CoE, and Euro-Atlantic Resilience Centre.
They served for 34 years in various roles for the US and NATO including tours as Political Advisor for NATO Training Mission – Iraq (NTMI), Policy Planner for the US Military Delegation to NATO, Assistant Political Advisor to the Commander of NATO Joint Force Headquarters – Naples, Deputy Defense Advisor at the US Mission to the European Union, Balkans Regional Manager for the Joint Interagency Countertrafficking Center.
More recent positions include senior fellow at Friends of Europe, multilateral engagement coordinator for US European Command and (Acting) Director of Training and Exercises for the Hybrid COE in Helsinki.
They have appeared or been published in numerous journals and media outlets to include Politico, Euronews, Forbes, Al Jazeera, American Foreign Policy Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Center for International Maritime Security, Kathimerini (Greece), Tidningen Naeringslivet (Sweden), Freedom Gazette (India), Etemad Daily (Iran), Defending Democracy (Netherlands), Kumparan (Indonesia), European Business Journal, Maritime Executive, The Independent (Ireland), Guildhall (Ukraine), and his work has been translated into eight languages.
Chris designs and leads combined EU-NATO, public-private, and civil society resilience exercises to bring together a broad spectrum of leaders to produce workable solutions to address emerging hybrid, cyber, critical infrastructure, terrorism, and disinformation challenges to democracy and security. They also conducts research on hybrid and future technology threats, and runs whole-of-government and whole-of-society seminars and training courses on resilience, hybrid threats, artificial intelligence, quantum technology, autonomous systems, and maritime security.
They serve as a frequent lecturer for Harvard University, New York University, Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP), European Security and Defence College (ESDC), College of Europe, Irish National Defence College, Italian Naval Staff College, University of Makedonia (Greece), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), and member of the EU Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN).
Education includes a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Ball State University, Master of Science in Military Strategic Studies from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), and honor graduate of the NATO Defense College.