Kersti Kaljulaid served as the President of the Republic of Estonia from 2016 to 2021. Since 2024, she has been serving as the President of the Estonian Olympic Committee. In the summer of 2021, UN Secretary-General António Guterres appointed President Kaljulaid as the Global Advocate for the “Every Woman Every Child” strategy for a subsequent two-year term. In 2023, she co-chaired the United Nations High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession. She holds the distinction of being the first Estonian featured on Forbes’ list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women. She is a member of several prestigious boards, including the Yalta European Strategy, the GLOBSEC Advisory Council, the Microsoft Technology & National Security Advisory Council, the Multiverse AI Advisory Board, and the Stockholm Environment Institute Board. In 2021, she founded the President Kaljulaid Foundation, an NGO and think tank dedicated to advancing democracy, empowering the vulnerable, and navigating the societal impact of digitalization.
