Merle Maigre

Merle Maigre is the Programme Director of Cybersecurity at Estonia’s e-Governance Academy. 2023-2025, she also served as a chosen Member of the Advisory Group of European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). Previously, she was Executive Vice President for Government Relations at CybExer Technologies, an Estonian company that provides cyber range based trainings. 2017- 2018 Merle Maigre served as the Director of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE) in Tallinn and 2018-2022 as the International Advisory Board member of NATO CCDCOE. 2012-2017 she worked as the Security Policy Adviser to Estonian Presidents Kersti Kaljulaid and Toomas Hendrik Ilves.

Merle Maigre has been decorated with the Order of Merit of Poland (2014), the Commander of the Order of Lion of Finland (2014), the Dutch Commander of the Order of Oragne-Nassau (2018), the Estonian Defence Forces distinguished service medal (2018) and the Order of Merit of the Estonian Ministry of Defence (2018).

Merle Maigre received an MA degree in war studies from King’s College London, a BA in international relations from Middlebury College (US) and a BA in history from Tartu University. She has also studied at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center and at Sciences-Po Paris. She was named James S. Denton Transatlantic Fellow of the US Centre for European Policy Analysis (2018), and an Asmus Policy Entrepreneurs Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (2012).