Natalia Zwarts

Research Leader RAND Europe

Natalia Zwarts is a research leader at RAND Europe. Zwarts previously served at NATO Headquarters, where she contributed to the Capability Development Roadmap in Anti-Submarine Warfare and Precision-Guided Munitions. Subsequently, she joined the NATO Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence, where she led the Wargaming, Modelling and Simulation project. There, she focused on developing civilian players and updated scenarios across NATO. Her work culminated in a book, Wargaming Experiences: Soldiers, Scientists and Civilians. She also served an appointment at the Hague University of Applied Sciences as a Lecturer in the Safety and Security Management Studies. A group she mentored won the NATO Wargaming Challenge with an innovative design for the Multi Domain Operations. She later joined the Information Security Management Team as a Lecturer and a Researcher at the Cyber Risk Management Group. Her work addressed the most pressing cyber threats with simulations.

Zwarts holds a master's degree in security studies from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.