Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar
Chair of the Steering Group of the UDCG IT Coalition
Ambassador Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar is the Chair of the Steering Group of the UDCG IT Coalition. She also serves as Distinguished Fellow at the Technology Programme of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. In 2022-24, Ambassador Tiirmaa-Klaar was the Director of Digital Society Institute at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin. In 2018-21, she was serving as Ambassador for Cyber Diplomacy and Director General for the Cyber Diplomacy Department at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she led the Estonian efforts to promote norms of responsible state behaviour in cyberspace at the United Nations Security Council. Until 2018, Ambassador Tiirmaa-Klaar was working as the Head of Cyber Policy Coordination at the European External Action Service, where she coordinated EU external relations on cyber issues and co-led preparations of European Cyber Security Strategies since 2012. In 2011, she was assigned to the NATO International Staff to prepare the NATO Cyber Defence Policy.
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Updated: April 23, 2025
