Henrik Larsen

Henrik Larsen has more than 15 years of research-practitioner experience on transatlantic and European security. He is currently a fellow with the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA, Washington D.C.), the International Center for Defence and Security (ICDS, Tallinn), an Associate Expert of the Geopolitics and Security Studies Center (GSSC, Vilnius).

He was previously a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) of the ETH Zürich, a research fellow with the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School, a fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a visiting researcher at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and a fellow of the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy (IPD, Toronto).

He has policy experience from the EU Delegation to Ukraine, the EU Advisory Mission Ukraine, the United Nations in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, École Militaire in Paris, the Russia Department of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Danish Embassy in Vilnius.

He completed his PhD on NATO jointly between the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and the University of Southern Denmark. His articles have appeared in Washington Quarterly, RUSI Journal, Survival, European Security, Texas National Security Review, Defence Studies, and the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, and he has published analyses and op-eds in Foreign Policy, Lawfare, War on the Rocks and with several think-tanks.