Keynote in NEEDS 2026 Conference:
Resilience by Design during Polycrisis Era: Lithuania’s Next Steps Toward a Total Defence Posture and Comprehensive Crisis Management
About the speaker
Dr Ieva Gajauskaitė helps translate Resilience from concept into practice—designing resilience into the systems and institutions that must function under pressure. She currently leads Lithuania’s work on resilience against hybrid threats as Head of Division within the Total Defence and Crisis Management Group at the Ministry of National Defence, while also heading the Analysis Bureau at the National Crisis Management Centre, supporting decision-makers with structured assessment and early insight. She was an Associate Professor at the General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania and earned her PhD in Political Science at Vytautas Magnus University. Her expertise spans hybrid threats, foreign interference, resilience and crisis governance, and democratic resilience.
