Justyna Gotkowska is the Deputy Director at the Warsaw-based Center for Eastern Studies (OSW) and head of the Security and Defence Department. Formerly, she was the Coordinator of the Regional Security Programme and analyst in the Department for Germany and Northern Europe.

She focuses on regional and European security and defense issues in Northern and Central Europe. She has been following security, defense policy and armed forces’ development in Germany, the Nordic and the Baltic states. In recent years she has also written about NATO’s defence and deterrence posture on the Eastern flank and done research on EU’s security and defence policy from a Central European perspective. She has conducted projects for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on bi- and multilateral military cooperation in Central Europe, security and defence cooperation between Poland and Germany and implications of EU's Common Security and Defense Policy for Polish security policy among others. She has been involved in projects focused on Polish-Baltic defense cooperation – in cooperation with Tallinn-based International Centre for Defence Studies (ICDS). In 2018 she took part in the International Visitor Leadership Program organized by the US Department of State.