Mr. Pundors holds the position of the Chief of the Operational Support Branch at the NATO StratCom COE in Riga. He has been with the COE since March 2022. He has been contributing to the projects related to the Information Environment Assessment and has been assisting with StratCom capability development in some NATO partner nations. Prior to work at the COE Mr. Pundors was a career diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia. He joined the diplomatic service in 2003. His portfolio has included bilateral (RU, BY, US, CAN) and multilateral relations, including Arms Control and non-proliferation issues. He has served at number of posts in Latvian diplomatic missions. Additionally he has been joining the OSCE and EU election observation missions since 2009. He has taken part in missions to Russia, Belarus, Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia and Kenya.