Erlingur Erlingsson is a Senior Visiting Fellowat the Institute of International Affairs (IIA) at the University of Iceland. A former Icelandic diplomat, he served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Washington D., Iceland’s National Liaison Representative at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation, and was part of the ministry’s Directorate for Defence during drawdown talks for Naval Air Station Keflavik in 2006. He was previously a Visiting Fellow with the Center for Transatlantic Relations, at Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).