Closing remarks
LMC 2025
Closing remarks
LMC 2024
Helga Kalm
Deputy Director of the ICDS
Helga Kalm is the deputy director and head of the Foreign Policy programme as of August 2025. She was the director of the Lennart Meri Conference from 2023 to 2025.
Helga Kalm started in the position of the Lennart Meri Conference director in September 2023. Before joining the Lennart Meri Conference team, she served as the director of the NATO and Security Policy Division at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and worked as a political councillor at the Estonian Embassy in Washington, DC. She has also spent several years with the Estonian Ministry of Defence, where she most recently served as the deputy director for the Policy Planning Department. Throughout her career, she has always maintained her focus on NATO, transatlantic relations, and Baltic Sea security. Ms Kalm graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the University of Tartu. She also studied at Sciences Po, Georgetown University, and Renmin University of China.
Updated: October 10, 2023