Sandra Kalniete

About

Latvian politician, diplomat, and independence movement leader who served as Foreign Minister of Latvia from 2002 to 2004. She was previously the Latvian Ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997.

Before Fame

She graduated from the Department of Art History and Art Theory in the Art Academy of Latvia.

Trivia

She became a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and began serving as a Member of the European Parliament for the European People's Party in 2009.

Family Life

Her parents raised her in Siberia.

Associated With

She wrote a book about her family's deportation during the Joseph Stalin era.