Politics

Liberty-led Baltic Sea governance

I work where youth mandates meet market liberalism. Right now that means serving as a Deputy Board Member within BSSSC, being elected Working Group Leader on AI & Finance in the CYR of the BSR Youth Forum (CBSS), and acting as a Students For Liberty Local Coordinator. The work weaves technology, open markets, and regional diplomacy into one agenda.

My political lens is openly Austrian school. I see technology as the strongest driver of productivity, capitalism as the system that delivers the broadest gains in quality of life, and individual liberty as the core value. Policy is worth having only when it protects voluntary exchange, reliable infrastructure, and the right to build.

Work positions

Current mandates that anchor this docket.

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Jan 2025 – Oct 2026

BSSSC Youth Board

Deputy Board Member

Represent Baltic Sea youth interests, convene AI competitiveness workshops, and turn youth proposals into concrete board items.

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2025/2026 term

Council of Youth Representatives · BSRYF (CBSS)

AI & Finance Working Group Lead

Work with regional delegates on frameworks for European scale venture funding, lean startup taxation, and cross border AI infrastructure.

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Ongoing

Students For Liberty

Local Coordinator

Mobilize liberty focused students, run Austrian school discussion labs, and connect policy debates to real entrepreneurial case studies.

Events

Recent convenings, with upcoming engagements added over time.

BSSSC Board Meeting at the Hanse-Office in Brussels
2–3 Dec 2025 · Brussels

Youth representation, green transition, and regional security

BSSSC Board Meeting

Joined a breakfast session at the European Parliament with MEP Niclas Herbst to connect Brussels policy logic with Baltic Sea ground realities, then represented the youth perspective at the BSSSC Board Meeting at the Hanse-Office.

Nordic Baltic Youth Summit in Helsinki
28–30 Nov 2025 · Helsinki

AI & Energy infrastructure

Nordic Baltic Youth Summit

Facilitated the AI x Energy workshop for Nordic-Baltic delegates, representing BSRYF and CBSS. Pivoted from technical grid optimization content to frame AI as a sovereignty and security issue after gauging audience priorities.

Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue in Stockholm
21–25 Nov 2025 · Stockholm

European AI sovereignty and digital infrastructure

Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue

Presented a blunt reality check to Nordic-Baltic delegates at this five-day dialogue hosted by CBSS and the German Embassy: Europe is importing its reasoning and building its digital future on infrastructure that is not its own. Argued that Europe desperately needs its own foundation models.

Cybercation Forum floor at Cyber Security Nordic
4 Nov 2025 · Helsinki

AI & cybersecurity readiness across the Nordic region

Cybercation Forum · Cyber Security Nordic

Represented CBSS and BSRYF, introduced youth initiatives, and pushed panels to pair talent pipelines with structural investments in compute, power, and data centers to meet Russia linked threats.

EUSBSR 2025 stage in Gdańsk
26–30 Oct 2025 · Gdańsk & Sopot

AI infrastructure, regional cooperation, and liberty first competitiveness

EUSBSR Annual Forum 2025

Challenged the Day of Cities and Regions panel on Europe's tech paradox and ran CYR workshops that prototyped a European scale VC fund, startup friendly taxation, and a Project Stargate level data estate.

Outputs

PDF briefings and blog style entries, with files linked as soon as they are cleared for release.

Policy blueprint · Nov 2025

Beyond Chatbots: Building European Infrastructure for Advanced Intelligence

A 50 page roadmap arguing that Europe has a short window to commit about one trillion euros to compute, energy, and talent, anchored in the Baltic Sea Region, to avoid long term dependence on US and Chinese AI systems.

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PDF briefing · Nov 2025

Cybercation Report

Distills ideas from Nordic stakeholders at the Cybercation Forum and adds my thesis that talent policy only works when it is matched with hard infrastructure, so AI defense stays credible.

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PDF briefing · Oct 2025

Project Stargate Should Have Been European

Recaps five days of convenings in Gdańsk and Sopot and explains why the Baltic Sea Region needs its own high trust compute backbone, liberalized energy markets, and investor friendly regulations.

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Beliefs

My manifesto is simple. Growth is moral because it compounds human potential. The Austrian school shows that dispersed knowledge and free prices beat central planning. The Baltic Sea Region should therefore double down on policies that open energy markets, protect new compute build outs, and let talent move without friction. The state's role is to defend liberty, secure borders, protect property, and otherwise stay light touch so founders, researchers, and cities can iterate quickly.

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