Giedrimas Jeglinskas is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a Climate Fellow at the Emerson Collective. Mr. Jeglinskas is currently a Senior Advisor to Accenture’s EU AI/Data Lab in Brussels.
Mr. Jeglinskas served as the Assistant Secretary General for Executive Management until November 2022. He held overall responsibility for management of the NATO headquarters and was the Secretary General’s primary advisor for NATO-wide management issues. Mr. Jeglinskas led 400-strong Executive Management division responsible for all the enabling functions of NATO including human resources, infrastructure, information technology, and finance. He also served as Chair of the Management Board at NATO Pensions, a EUR700 million AUM pensions plan and was an originator of NATO’s Innovation Fund, a EUR1 billion venture capital fund.
Before assuming leadership role at NATO, Mr. Jeglinskas served as Deputy Minister of Defense of Lithuania from 2017 where he oversaw capability development and defense acquisition (~EUR500 million p.a.), industry and technology partnerships (founder of MoD’s MilInvest defense accelerator and fund).
From 2010 to 2017, Mr. Jeglinskas worked as Vice President in Corporate Banking at Citigroup, most recently in Warsaw, Poland. His earlier roles at Citigroup included capital markets origination and corporate finance in New York, Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney, Australia. As a Lithuanian Army officer, Mr. Jeglinskas served in infantry and intelligence leadership roles.
Mr. Jeglinskas graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point with a BSc in Political Science and Computer Science. He holds an MA in National Security Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC and an MBA in Strategy and Finance from Columbia Business School in New York. Mr. Jeglinskas speaks English, Russian, some French and Polish.