Damjan Krnjević Mišković

Damjan Krnjević Mišković joined the American Foreign Policy Council as a Visiting Scholar in December 2025. Since March 2020, he has resided in Baku, Azerbaijan, serving as a Professor of Practice at ADA University; Director for Policy Research, Analysis, and Publications at its in-house think-tank, the Institute for Development and Diplomacy (IDD); and Co-Editor of the university’s flagship quarterly policy journal, Baku Dialogues. He is also a Fellow at the Agora Strategy Institute, the in-house think-tank of the Agora Strategy Group, a strategic consultancy firm founded by Wolfgang Ischinger.

Krnjević is a seasoned diplomat, political strategist, and crisis counselor who gained more than a decade of executive-level policymaking experience on both sides of the Atlantic before age 40. Previous positions include Executive Director and Senior Fellow of the Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), a think-tank he co-founded in Belgrade in 2013, with a concurrent appointment as Editor of the journal Horizons; Senior Strategist and Chief Speechwriter for the Serbian Candidate for UN Secretary-General (2015-2016); Senior Special Advisor and Chief Speechwriter to the President of the UN General Assembly (2012-2013); and Senior Adviser and Chief Speechwriter to the Foreign Minister of Serbia (2007-2012), among other positions. 

Krnjević is co-editor (with Svante E. Cornell) of After Karabakh: War, Peace, and the Forging of a New Caucasus (AFPC Press, 2025) and (with Fariz Ismailzade) of Liberated Karabakh: Policy Perspectives by the ADA University Community (ADA University Press, 2021), and editor and translator into Serbian of a book of selected essays by political philosophers Leo Strauss, Stanley Rosen, and Pierre Manent. His writings have appeared in The National Interest, the French journal Commentaire, the Journal of Democracy, Orbis, Society, and The Review of Metaphysics, in addition to theFinancial Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, National Review, and many other outlets. 

Krnjević graduated from Middlebury College and is also an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Senior Executives in National and International Security program, where he received a fellowship from the Kokkalis Foundation. He is also an alumnus of the Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance and the China Executive Leadership Academy.