Boris Kaliský

Fellow

Boris Kaliský is a Fellow at the Economic and Financial Statecraft Program focusing on sanctions implementation. He  has served as PSSI’s Director of Operations  from April 2020 until December 2024. Since 2022, Boris has represented PSSI in RUSI’s  Sanctions and Illicit Finance Monitoring and Analysis Network (SIFMANet) and worked on sanctions-related projects.  He is an alumnus of PSSI´s Robinson-Martin Security Scholars Academy (2006) and has since worked with PSSI on various projects and events as a communications and logistics coordinator and a researcher. During this period, he also worked as an editor and journalist focusing on maritime affairs. In addition, he  undertook an unconventional career detour as a bosun and ship’s officer on the tall ship La Grace, as well as authored a book on the cryptocurrencies.

From 2004 to 2013, Mr. Kaliský worked at the Forum 2000 Foundation and Keynote ltd. as an Event and Program Coordinator. He focused on projects aimed at developing civil society in Central and Eastern Europe, protection  of human rights, and understanding the significance of  renewable energy as it related to security.  Mr. Kaliský holds an MA degree in International Relations from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University.