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Lennart Meri Conference 2026

Fortune Favours the Brave

15-17 May 2026 · Tallinn · Radisson Collection Hotel

Three days of high-level foreign and security policy debate in Tallinn, Estonia. Global voices and expert insights, with a Nordic-Baltic flavour — all at the Lennart Meri Conference 2026.

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Speakers

Gordon Corera

Security Analyst for the BBC and Host of the Rest is Classified Podcast

Kimberly Dozier

Global Affairs Analyst at CNN

Ingo Gerhartz

Commander of NATO Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum

Kaja Kallas

High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission

Alar Karis

President of Estonia

Jennifer Kavanagh

Director and Senior Fellow of Military Analysis at Defense Priorities

Maria Theresa Lazaro

Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines

Elena Lazarou

Director General at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy

Oana Lungescu

Distinguished Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute

Sergei Medvedev

Professor at Charles University

Jakov Milatović

President of Montenegro

Phillips O’Brien

Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews

Kaupo Rosin

Director General of the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service

Maia Sandu

President of Moldova

Bruno Tertrais

Deputy Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research

Ilke Toygür

Director of the Global Policy Center and Professor at IE University
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Let us put Europe in the lead – on our continent and on the global stage

Speech by the President of Estonia at the Lennart Meri Conference Dinner on 15 May 2026.

Alar Karis
LMC 2026

Nordic-Baltic Security without the United States?

When the Nordic and Baltic states joined NATO, whether in 1949, 2004, 2023, or 2024, the decision was primarily grounded in a desire to have the United States as an Ally. It was the transatlantic security ties to the global superpower and its extended conventional…

Karsten Friis
LMC 2025

How to Resist Russia’s Covert War Against the West

In parallel with the continuation of the military intervention in Ukraine, Russia has intensified its non-military aggression in western countries, using the entire spectrum of covert actions: from supporting political proxies and propaganda, to the formation of paramilitary organisations and conducting sabotage actions against critical…

Oleksandr Danylyuk
LMC 2025
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