Roger Hilton is based in Vienna and works as a Defence and Security Fellow at GLOBSEC, an international think-tank in Bratislava, Slovakia. Roger is also the host of the GLOBSEC Wire, a bi-weekly show on global affairs and its impact on Central and Eastern Europe. He is a 2016 graduate of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and holds a Masters Degree in Advanced International Studies, as well as a 2013 foreign policy certificate from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). Roger has previous experience as a Strategic Communications Analyst at the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Greece (NRDC – GR) and with the delegation of the Kingdom of Belgium at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). In addition, he has worked at the Office of the State Minister of Georgia for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration in Tbilisi, as well as the Estonian Atlantic Treaty Association in Tallinn. To date, he has visited half of the former Soviet Republics including the breakaway region of Transnistria as well the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Additionally, he has received briefings from Operation UNIFIER in Yavoriv, western Ukraine and at the Black Tiger Military Base in Kurdistan, Iraq.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY ROGER HILTON
Afghanistan 2021: An extremist ‘stammtisch”
A monster miracle from a cave
Tribal Truths: The wounds of the US’ Afghanistan exit
