Cyber Policy Studies Research Fellow
Ms. Mirjam Kert is an Estonian national, and a member of the Strategic Communications Unit of the Küber Kaitseliit (Cyber Defense Unit) of the Estonian Defense Forces, participating in national exercises regularly.
She has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Asian studies with a focus on China and language studies from Tallinn University and a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in business innovation from the Estonian Business School. In addition, she was awarded a Diploma in Psychology from the University of Tartu in Estonia. She is fluent in Estonian, Chinese, and English with academic experience in China. At the International Centre for Defence Studies in Tallinn, she monitored and complied reports relating to China’s economic expansion.
Furthermore, Mirjam has nearly 10 years of project management experience with technical companies in Estonia. This has included managing several multi-million Euro Horizon 2020 grants by the European Union as well as websites. Companies where she has been a project manager include Guardtime which developed KSI, “originally designed to support the Estonian Government in its quest for zero-trust systems,” i.e., systems that can provide formally verifiable mathematical proof of the correctness of operation. She also held this position at the Estonian Development Fund as well as Startup Estonia Kredex, which is a governmental initiative aimed to supercharge the Estonian startup ecosystem supporting the goal fostering additional startup success stories.