Ambassador (ret.) Mark Brzezinski

Ambassador (ret.) Mark Brzezinski is the president and CEO of Brzezinski Global Strategies, a boutique strategic consulting firm. He served as the US Ambassador to Poland from 2021 to 2024 and spearheaded the selection of American firms Westinghouse and Bechtel to build Poland’s very first civil nuclear power plant, a $30 billion deal.

In 2015, Brzezinski became the first Executive Director of the White House’s Arctic Executive Steering Committee. His leadership resulted in new markers being set for commercial development in the fragile Arctic region.  

From 2011 to 2015, Brzezinski served as the US Ambassador to Sweden during which time he arranged the first-ever US Presidential visit to Stockholm in 2013, which brought together all five heads of governments of the Nordic countries for a summit that galvanized a US-Nordic strategic approach on energy, innovation and sustainability.

From 1999 to 2001, Brzezinski served on President Clinton’s National Security Council staff, first as a Director for Russia and Eurasia, and then as a Director for the Balkans.

Brzezinski received a BA from Dartmouth College, a JD from the University of Virginia, and a Doctorate in Political Science from Oxford University.