Ambassador Maira Mora

Ambassador Maira Mora is the Director General of the Permanent International Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS Secretariat). With more than twenty years of diplomatic and foreign policy experience, Ambassador Mora is working for the 11 Member States of the CBSS alongside the European Union, coordinating the work of the organisation in line with the three CBSS long-term priorities - Regional Identity, Sustainable & Prosperous Region and Safe & Secure Region and managing the CBSS Secretariat in Stockholm. Prior to joining the CBSS, she was the Head of the EU Delegation in Belarus. As the representative of the EU, she coordinated and pursued EU policies in all areas, promoting EU principles and values, ensuring EU visibility and developing cooperation projects. Within the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs she has held the position of Ambassador to Lithuania, to Belarus, as well as Ambassador at Large, Head of the Policy Planning Unit and Deputy Head of the Latvian Delegation to the OSCE in Vienna. She has also been Counsellor within the State Secretary’s Bureau, the European Correspondent, as well as a member of the crisis control expert commission at the Latvian Prime Minister’s Bureau.  Ambassador Maira Mora holds a degree from the University of Latvia, Department of Foreign Languages, and has been educated at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and the International Security Studies College in Germany. Her expertise is linked to security policy, development and economic cooperation, as well as neighborhood policy.

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