Zanda Kalnina-Lukasevica is a well-recognized foreign policy leader, as well as a strategist in international relations and national development policy. Since 2022, she has served as Deputy Speaker of the Saeima, the Latvian Parliament. She is an active member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on European Affairs.
Zanda Kalnina-Lukasevica leads the Latvian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, holds the position of vice-president of the EPP political group, and chairs the Monitoring Committee of the Assembly. She also serves as a rapporteur of the Assembly on “Foreign interference: a threat to democratic security in Europe”, tasked with developing the report on this critical issue.
Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica is a lecturer at the University of Latvia, where she teaches a master’s course on the European Union’s foreign affairs. Her international leadership includes her role as a Council Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and as a Member of the Board of Trustees of Friends of Europe, a Brussels-based think tank.