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Spring 2026

Estonia - Scaling Cyber Capacity Worldwide

Friday, April 3, 2026 at 4:30pm
Shriram 108

Join us for a conversation with Merle Maigre on how Estonia is helping scale cyber capacity worldwide, drawing on experience across Ukraine, Moldova, the Western Balkans, and Central Asia. She’ll share practitioner-driven insights on cyber policy, institution-building, and real-world cyber preparedness from one of the world’s leading voices in cybersecurity strategy.

Speaker: Merle Maigre
Currently as a short-term visiting scholar at CISAC Stanford, Merle has been leading the cyber programme at e-Governance Academy in Estonia. She’s become involved with cyber from a strategic government perspective, where she used to work, most recently as the Director of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, before that as the Security Policy Advisor to the President of Estonia, and earlier as an analyst at the Policy Planning Unit at NATO SecGen’s Private Office.