Eneken Tikk-Ringas is the Consulting Senior Fellow for the Future Conflict and Cyber Security Programme, The International Institute for Strategic Studies. Before joining IISS, she worked as a legal adviser and the head of the legal and policy team at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia. She was one of the lead experts to analyze and write about cyber attacks against Estonia in 2007 and has since worked with many governments and international organizations on strategic cybersecurity matters. Before joining the NATO Centre, she worked as an attorney in the field of information technology, focusing on EU regulations and standards for the security of private and national information systems. She has consulted Estonian public authorities on legal and policy issues related to deploying and managing national information systems and services.
She serves as an international research associate at the Georgetown University Center for Law, Technology and Security and has long teaching experience at Tallinn Technical University and the Swedish National Defence College. She speaks Estonian, English, German, and Russian. She holds a PhD in law from the University of Tartu in Estonia. She has written numerous articles on strategic cyber security issues, is a frequent speaker at international cyber security conferences, and serves as an expert in the UN Disarmament and International Security Committee’s Group of Governmental Experts.