A. Wess Mitchell

A. Wess Mitchell is an American policy analyst. Currently serving as the president and CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis, he is President Donald Trump's nominee to become Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.

Mitchell has a B.A. in history and political science from Texas Tech University, a master's degree in German and European studies from Georgetown University, and a PhD from the Free University of Berlin.

He was a research associate at the National Center for Policy Analysis before co-founding the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in 2004. CEPA is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy research institute dedicated to the study of Central and Eastern Europe. Mitchell worked on the national security transition team for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.

Mitchell has co-authored two books: Unquiet Frontier: Vulnerable Allies, Rising Rivals and the Crisis of American Power (with Jakub J. Grygiel, 2016) and The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable (with John Hulsman, 2009). He serves on the advisory councils of the Richard G. Lugar Institute for Diplomacy and Congress, the Slovak Atlantic Commission, the Prague Center for Transatlantic Relations, the Atlantic Initiative, and the Alexander Hamilton Society.