Miriam Lexmann

Director of EU Regional Programmes, International Republican Institute

Slovakia

Miriam Lexmann is the Director of EU Regional Programmes at the International Republican Institute, where she runs the Beacon Project, focusing on addressing vulnerabilities and democracy gaps exploited by domestic and foreign actors through disinformation and other means. She is Member of the Advisory Board of the COMPASS project on capacity-building and governance at the University of Kent, and a Foreign Policy spokeswoman for the Slovak Christian Democratic Movement (KDH). She is a former Slovak diplomat and, in her latest publications and lectures, Miriam captures moral and ethical issues impacting our democracies.