Marko Mihkelson is a Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Estonian Parliament. He was first elected to the Parliament in 2003 and is serving currently his sixth mandate. He has served in previous parliaments as a Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee, Chair of EU Affairs Committee and Chair of National Defense Committee. Between 2000 and 2003 he worked as the Director of the Baltic Centre for Russian Studies, from 1997 to 2000 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the biggest national daily newspaper Postimees and from 1994 to 1997 he was Postimees’s correspondent in Moscow. He has a MA degree in History from the University of Tartu. He is chairing Council of Foreign Relations of Estonia and he is a member of the council of the European Council of Foreign Relations and ICDS. He is author of the books „Russia: In Dusk and Dawn“ (2010) and “The Disruptive Era” (2018).