Daniel Bartha is a foreign and security policy expert. He is the Director of International Relations at the Budapest-based Equilibrium Institute and the president and former director of the Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (CEID). Previously, he served as the director of the Central European Policy Institute (the GLOBSEC Policy Institute today) in Bratislava. He was formerly employed at the International Centre for Democratic Transition (ICDT), where he first worked as a project manager, was then appointed Director for Development, and finally went on to serve as the Strategic Vice President at the Centre for Democracy Public Foundation, the ICDT’s oversight body. His research focuses on the regional, EU and NATO integration of Central Europe.