Baiba Braže
Ambassador for Special Assignments, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia
Ambassador Baiba Braže just completed her term as Assistant Secretary General of NATO for Public Diplomacy. In that role, she advised the NATO Secretary General, oversaw the coordination of all strategic communications activities across all NATO civilian and military bodies and commands, and directed all public diplomacy activities. She led work on elaborating NATO’s approach to engagement in the Indo-Pacific, specifically on understanding and counterattacking hostile actors’ hybrid and influence activities in the Alliance. In her diplomatic career, Ambassador Braže has served as Latvia’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Netherlands, OPCW, as the Director General of Security Policy and International Organisations, DG Communications, Europe Director, as the Foreign Policy and National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, and held numerous other posts since joining the Foreign Ministry in August 1993, both at home (Legal Department, International Organisations Department) and abroad (UN, New York). She holds two master’s degrees from the University of Latvia, in law (1990) and in communication science (2002), and has studied Southeast Asian Studies and Thai Buddhism at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. In addition to Latvian, Ambassador Braže is fluent in English and Russian and has proficiency in Dutch.
Updated: September 7, 2023