Ambassador Jüri Seilenthal is the director-general of the Department for Trade Policy and International Economic Organizations in Estonia's Ministry of Finance. He has been a full member of the EU Trade Policy Committee since 2018. During the last decade, he has also dealt with development and humanitarian issues and human rights. Since 1995 he has served at MFA Estonia in five different positions in Tallinn and been posted to Ireland as charge d'affaires, to Rome as Ambassador, and to Geneva as PR, Ambassador to UN and other IOs. 

Organized by the EU Program, co-sponsored by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, the Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance