BIO

Estonian civil servant, son of former President Toomas Hendrik Ilves.

From 17 January 2022, he became deputy state secretary for communications and state information systems at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications.

Until 2022, he was head of strategy at Guardtime, a cyber security and blockchain company, where he was previously head of research and innovation collaboration. Prior to that, he was deputy director and senior researcher at The Lisbon Council, a Brussels-based think tank.

During Estonia’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Luukas Ilves led the digital policy team and programme at the Permanent Representation of Estonia to the European Union. He has also worked at both the State Information System Agency and the Ministry of Defence.