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Merle Maigre

Executive Vice President, CybExer Technologies; former Director, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence

Before being appointed Vice-President of Government Relations at CybExer Technologies, Ms Maigre was the Director of NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Estonia. Prior to this, Merle worked as security adviser to Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and President Kersti Kaljulaid. Ms Maigre worked at the Policy Planning Unit of NATO’s Secretary General, on secondment from the Estonian Ministry of Defence.

Maigre has worked as a researcher at the International Centre for Defence Studies [IKK ICDS], where she specialised in defence and security policy developments in Ukraine and was in charge of launching and running the Project Civil-Military Relations in Estonia and International Good Practice. In 2005-2007, she was deputy head of the NATO mission in Kiev, Ukraine; prior to that, she worked in the Ministry of Defence and in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Ms Maigre’s membership of the European Leadership Network is in a personal capacity.