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Dialogue between Javier Colomina and Mira Milosevich

Javier Colomina and Mira Milosevich

The Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising the dialogue «Shared Challenges: The Future of Transatlantic Security» on 15 December at 7 pm, with the participation of Javier Colomina and Mira Milosevich.

Javier Colomina is a Spanish diplomat and senior official at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), where he currently serves as Special Representative of the Secretary General for the Southern Neighbourhood. In this capacity, he leads NATO's political strategy in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Sahel, key regions for Euro-Atlantic security and stability. A member of the Spanish diplomatic career since 2001, he has developed an extensive career in international affairs, human rights and security policy. He has held positions at the Permanent Mission of Spain to the United Nations in New York, at the Spanish embassies in Damascus, Buenos Aires and Tokyo, as well as in the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Madrid. Between 2017 and 2021 he was Deputy Permanent Representative of Spain to NATO, before joining the Alliance's international structure. In 2021, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political and Security Affairs and Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, positions from which he has promoted political dialogue and cooperation in regions of high geostrategic relevance. Recognised for his strategic vision and diplomatic skills, Colomina has made a decisive contribution to strengthening Spain's role in global debates on security, defence and international stability.

Mira Milosevich-Juaristi is a senior researcher for Russia, Eurasia and the Balkans at the Elcano Royal Institute, associate professor of The Foreign Policy of Russia at School of Global and Public Affairs from IE University. She has collaborated on several collective books and is the author of three books, two of them on the Yugoslav wars.The Sad and the Heroes. The Stories of Serbian Nationalists (200) y The Wheat of War. Nationalism and Violence in Kosovo (2001), published by Espasa Calpe. His most recent book is A Brief History of the Russian Revolution (2017, Galaxia Gutenberg, 7 editions). He has advised the European Parliament, the Spanish Parliament, the UK Parliament, NATO, STRATCOM and the US State Department on security issues related to disinformation as an instrument of Russia's hybrid warfare in the West. He is on the board of the Transatlantic Relations Initiative (IE University). He is a member of two working groups of the European Leadership Network, Contact Group on Western-Russian relations and the Russia-NATO Action Group. In 2020, it was Visiting Fellow  of the programme on Europe, Russia and Eurasia of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. thanks to the financial support of Argyros Family Foundation. Mira Milosevich holds a PhD in European Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid and a degree in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Belgrade. Diploma of the Workshop in Global Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School (2019) and CSIS executive courses diploma Understanding Russian Military Today (2020) y Understanding Washington (2020). His working languages are Spanish, English, Russian and Serbian.

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