Zak Schneider- Research Associate at the PSCD is the Master’s student in Government and Diplomatic Studies at Georgetown University. Concurrently, Zak is working in the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative. Zak has also been contributing as a policy fellow in the Washington bureau of the Ukraine Congress Committee of America. Before Washington, Zak was the first foreign citizen to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, Zak resided in Stockholm, Sweden in the Fall of 2022 studying Baltic Sea Region Security.

Krystian Schneyder- Intern at the PSCD is currently completing his Master’s in European Studies at KU Leuven. Krystian is a Cambridge University graduate and former editor of the magazine Varsity. He is also a member of the Cambridge Union debating society and has been an intern at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) in Warsaw.