Henrik Larsen

Dr Henrik Larsen has been a non-resident research fellow with the ICDS since 2023, while also being a non-resident fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). He was previously a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) of the ETH Zürich with a focus on NATO and transatlantic security. Before that, he served as a political adviser with the EU Delegation to Ukraine and before that with the EU Advisory Mission Ukraine under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). He was previously a research fellow with the Belfer Center at Harvard University’s Kennedy School, a Fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a visiting researcher at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He worked at the United Nations in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, at the École Militaire in Paris, and the Russia Department of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He completed his PhD jointly between the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and the University of Southern Denmark with a dissertation on NATO and democratisation. His articles have appeared in The Washington Quarterly, The RUSI Journal, Survival, European Security, the Texas National Security Review, and the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, and he has published analyses and op-eds in Foreign Policy, Lawfare, and War on the Rocks, in addition to several think-tank publications.