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Director of LINKS Europe and Managing Editor of commonspace.eu

Dennis Sammut is the Director of LINKS Europe Foundation and Managing Editor of the web portal commonspace.eu.

He was born in Malta, and lived most of his life in Oxford.

He has a Masters in International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE), and was awarded a doctorate by the University of Oxford for his thesis on the end of the British period in Arabia. He served as senior member of St Antony’s College at Oxford University from 2016-2018. Since February 2019 he has lived in The Hague, The Netherlands.

In December 2006 Dennis Sammut was awarded the OBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II for his contribution to peace in the Caucasus. This work has been central to his activity over the last three decades, where he worked to develop dialogue at track two and track one and half levels, and he has been particularly dedicated to design and develop confidence-building measures as tools to support peace processes.

Dennis Sammut has travelled widely in the post-Soviet space, and accompanied many of the processes that have defined the region since 1990. His six video diaries where he talks about some of the events, and his own experiences were published on commonspace.eu in February 2024.

His hobby is cooking.