Valbona Zeneli is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and at the Transatlantic Security Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s 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. From 2011 to 2023, she served as a professor of national security studies and chair of strategic engagements at the US Department of Defense’s George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies where she continues her affiliation as an visiting adjunct professor. Zeneli is a also a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

She specializes in transatlantic relations, strategic competition, NATO, globalization and international economy, European Union enlargement, and the Western Balkans. Zeneli was a nonresident visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna in 2021-2022 as a Europe’s Future fellow, focusing in her research on Chinese influence in the Balkans.