Council

Urmas Klaas, Chairman 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 12^th Riigikogu and Chairman of Economic Affairs Committee of the 11^th 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.

Maris Jesse, Member 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.

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.

Vladimir Šokman, Member of the Council

Vladimir Šokman has graduated graduated at the University of Tartu from the departments of sports and psychology.
He has been the director of the Tartu Industrial School, Vice-Mayor of Tartu and Chairman of the Tartu City Council.