Kersti Kaljulaid was the first female President of Estonia, having been elected into office in 2016. She has served as Economic Advisor to Prime Minister Mart Laar and CFO and CEO of the Iru Power Plant, a state-owned energy company Eesti Energia. Kersti Kaljulaid has been a co-author and editor of multiple social-political radio talk shows. In 2017, Kaljulaid became the first Estonian to be featured in the Forbes magazine’s list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women. In 2021, Kaljulaid served on the advisory panel for the World Bank’s World Development Report. Since 2022, she has been co-chairing– alongside Keith J. Krach– the nonpartisan Global Tech Security Commission to safeguard freedom from technological authoritarianism, which was jointly established by the Atlantic Council and the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University. In 2023, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres appointed Kaljulaid as co-chair of the United Nations High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession, alongside Paula-Mae Weekes. Kaljulaid also serves as an advisor to the Munich Security Conference and Centre for European Reform, among others.