Samuel Goda works as Head of Future of Security and Cooperation Program in the Slovak Foreign Policy Association and assistant professor at the University of Economics in Bratislava. His research interests include conflict transformation, protracted conflicts in the post-Soviet space and cooperative security. Besides that, he worked as project manager of numerous projects in the field of international relations and security, participative democracy and youth, peace and security-related issues, mostly in the V4 countries, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. In 2018 and 2019 Goda served as a Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson in Office on Youth and Security.