Areas of expertise: hybrid warfare, influence activities, Baltic Sea regional security, comprehensive security
Languages: Estonian, English, Finnish
Henrik Praks re-joined the ICDS in August 2024 as a research fellow with the Security & Resilience Programme. In 2020, he was seconded by the Estonian Government Office as a Senior Analyst to the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats in Helsinki, where he served until coming back to the ICDS. Earlier in his career, he held various positions within the Estonian Ministry of Defence, focusing on defence and security policy, regional security, NATO, and EU defence issues. He was a lecturer in strategic studies at the Baltic Defence College (BALTDEFCOL). Mr Praks was a member of the ICDS research team between 2015 and 2018. During that period, he was also Director of the Annual Baltic Conference on Defence (ABCD).
Mr Praks has an MA degree from Tartu University’s Faculty of Law and an MA degree in East European Studies from Freie Universität Berlin. He is also a graduate of the International Training Course of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
