Mikołaj Firlej is a General Partner at Expeditions who combines three careers as a venture investor, academic lecturer on AI law and regulation, and former UN expert on autonomous weapons, giving him an unusually triple-hybrid perspective when evaluating defense and dual-use startups. His Oxford D.Phil thesis and UN Group of Governmental Experts role on autonomous weapons directly inform how he assesses autonomy, AI safety, and use-of-force questions in defense companies, rather than treating these as separate compliance considerations.