Speaker Solvita Aboltina
Curriculum Vitae
Date of birth 19 February 1963
Marital status Married, two children
Education
in 1986 Graduated from the Faculty
of Law of the University of
Latvia, legal expert
in 1981 Graduated from the Riga
Secondary School No. 5
Previous employment and positions
since November 2010 Speaker of the Saeima
since November 2010 Member of the 10th Saeima
since November 2010 Chairperson of the Board for Awarding the
Commemorative Medal for Participants of the Barricades of 1991
since March 2011 Chairperson of the alliance of political parties Unity
2010 – March 2011 Co-chairperson of the alliance of political parties Unity
March 2009 –
November 2010 Deputy Speaker of the Saeima
2008 – 2010 Chairperson of the board of the New Era party
November 2006 –
November 2010 Member of the 9th Saeima
member of the European Affairs Committee and
the Legal Affairs Committee
May 2006 –
November 2006 Member of the 8th Saeima
December 2004 –
April 2006 Minister for Justice
in 2004 Legal advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2002 – 2004 Member of the 8th Saeima
Chairperson of the Legal Affairs Committee
1995 – 2002 Director of the Consular Department of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
1993 – 1995 Head of the Consular Legal Division of the Consular Department
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
in 1993 Senior desk officer at the Consular Department of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
1979 – 1993 Legal advisor at state enterprise Latvijas kultūrpreces
Foreign language skills English, Russian, German