Nikolas Katsimpras

Nikolas Katsimpras is a conflict analyst and strategy consultant. His work focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean and the MENA region. In recent years, his primary specialization has shifted toward the use of open-source intelligence (OSINT) in conflict analysis, with a passion for developing OSINT teams, building custom AI-powered analytical tools, and designing interactive training challenges for skills assessment and development. Nikolas has been a lecturer at Columbia University's Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program since 2014. 

A former Senior Fellow of the Hellenic American Leadership Council, Nikolas also taught for many years in the Dispute Resolution program at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is an Atlantic Council Millennium Fellow alum and has delivered keynote speeches on the intersection of conflict, technology, and education at international venues, including O’Reilly’s Velocity Conference and the Evens Foundation’s Conflict Matters conference. 

A former officer of the Hellenic Navy with extensive international experience, Nikolas has been awarded by the International Institute for Humanitarian Law and received the Dynamical Systems Theory Fellowship from Columbia University’s Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4) for his research on peace negotiations in Burma in 2012.