Council
Maris Jesse, Chairman of the Council
Maris Jesse is the Deputy Secretary General on Health in the Ministry of Social Affairs.
Maris Jesse has graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tartu and defended a Master’s degree at the London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’st and London School of Economics and Political Sciences
Maris Jesse has worked as the director of the National Institute for Health Development and as the director of the Estonian Health Insurance Fund.
Urmas Klaas, Member of the Council
Urmas Klaas has been the Mayor of Tartu since April 2014.
Urmas Klaas has been Chairman of Cultural Affairs Committee of the 12th Riigikogu and Chairman of Economic Affairs Committee of the 11th Riigikogu.
He has also been Põlva County Governor, Head of Information Department in the Ministry of Education and Research, editor in the newspaper Postimees and Assistant Lecturer in the University of Tartu.
Eero Vasar, Member of the Council
Eero Vasar has defended a PhD in medicine at the University of Tartu.
He is Head of Office of the Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine at the University of Tartu. He has worked at the University of Tartu as Professor of Physiology, Head of Department of Physiology and Head of the Laboratory of Psychopharmacology.
Eero Vasar is member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.
Ennu Sepp, Member of the Council
Ennu Sepp has graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tartu.
He is Professor Emeritus of the University of Tartu.
Ennu Sepp has worked as a surgeon and a professor of surgery, anatomy and topographic anatomy and operative surgery.
Kristjan Vassil, Member of the Council
Kristjan Vassil has defended a PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. He is Vice Rector for Research at the University of Tartu.
Kristjan Vassil has worked at the University of Tartu as Vice Dean for Research and Development at the Faculty of Social Sciences, as Senior Research Fellow at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies and as Research Fellow at the Institute of Government and Politics.
Kristjan Vassil has also worked at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, in the European Democracy Observatory and in the European University Institute.
Raul-Allan Kiivet, Member of the Council
Raul-Allan Kiivet has graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tartu and PhD in Medicine at the University of Tartu and at Karolinska Institute.
Raul-Allan Kiivet has worked at the Department of Pharmacology, Chair of Clinical Pharmacology as Associate Professor and at the Department of Public Health, Chair of Health Care Management as a Professor.
Heljo Pikhof, Member of the Council
Heljo Pikhof has graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tartu. She is member of Social Democratic Party Faction in the Parliament of Estonia and member of Legal Affairs Committee and the Study Committee to Solve the Demographic Crisis.
Merike Saks, Member of the Council
Merike Saks has graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Tartu. She has a Master’s degree in Public Administration at the University of Tartu and a Master’s degree in management of digital transformation at Tallinn University of Technology. Merike Saks has worked as the chairman of Elron, as the Secretary-General and the Deputy Secretary-General of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, as the Director of Services at the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and as the Managing director of the Estonian Centre for Standardisation and Accreditation. Since April 2021 Merike Saks is the Secretary-General of the Estonian Ministry of Finance.
