Due to Covid-19 pandemic, the 14th Lennart Meri Conference is postponed until September 2021. But we brought the spirit of the conference online with leading foreign and security policy thinkers around the world on topical issues:
- Francis Fukuyama, American writer and political theorist, professor at Stanford University
- Thomas Bagger, director of foreign policy in the Office of the Federal President of Germany
- Kadri Liik, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations
- Carl Bildt, co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations and former prime minister and foreign minister of Sweden
- Kurt Volker, ambassador and US diplomat, distinguished fellow of the Center for European Policy Analysis
- Dmitry Suslov, deputy director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow
- James Sherr OBE, senior fellow of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at the ICDS
- Merle Maigre, senior cyber security expert at the e-Governance Academy of Estonia
- Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia 2006-2016
- Ciaran Martin, professor of practice at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; formerly the founding chief executive of the UK National Cyber Security Centre
- Jüri Luik, former minister of defence of Estonia
- Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer-prize winning historian and staff writer for The Atlantic
See all the talks at lmc.icds.ee/