Valbona Zeneli

Senior Fellow, Europe Center

Atlantic Council of the United States, Italy

Dr. Valbona Zeneli is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council with a dual affiliation at the Europe Center and at the Transatlantic Security Initiative of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She is also a visiting scholar for 2023-2024 at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. She worked for the U.S. Government for twelve years, from 2011 to 2023, serving as a professor of national security studies and chair of strategic engagements at the U.S. Department of Defense’s George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies where she continues her affiliation as a visiting adjunct professor.
She is also a course coordinator (contractor) of the Western Europe course at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State. Zeneli is a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She specializes in transatlantic relations, globalization and international economy, strategic competition, NATO, European Union enlargement, and the Western Balkans.