Mikael Wigell is Research Director at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, where he previously directed the Global Security research programme. He is also Adjunct Professor in International Political Economy at the University of Tampere and Non-Resident Associate at the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE). He earned his PhD at the London School of Economics and he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Changing Character of War Centre, Oxford University. His current research interests include geoeconomics, hybrid threats, conflict resolution and the political economy of Latin America.