Tomass Pildegovičs currently serves as an Advisor to the Latvian Foreign Minister on Security and Societal Resilience. From 2022-2024, he worked as a Senior Expert at the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence. Prior to that, he served as a Policy Advisor in the European Parliament, working on issues related to foreign interference in democratic processes, hybrid threats, and EU-Russia relations. 

Tomass is currently a PhD candidate in Politics and International Relations at the University of Cambridge, where he also completed his MPhil in Politics and International Relations with Distinction. He also holds a BA in International Relations with First Class Honours from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. 

He has also been named a CEPA Transatlantic Denton Fellow (2024), a Warsaw Security Forum New Security Leader (2023), and GLOBSEC Young Leader in Security and Defence (2021). He is also a “political influencer” and digital content creator, known in Latvia for his commentary on contemporary political and security issues. Tomass is also a reserve soldier in the Latvian Army.