Mailis Reps
| Mailis Reps | |
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Mailis Reps in 2011.
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| Minister of Education and Research | |
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Assumed office 23 November 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Jüri Ratas |
| Preceded by | Maris Lauri |
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In office 12 April 2005 – 5 April 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Andrus Ansip |
| Preceded by | Toivo Maimets |
| Succeeded by | Tõnis Lukas |
| Minister of Education | |
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In office 2002–2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Siim Kallas |
| Preceded by | Tõnis Lukas |
| Succeeded by | Toivo Maimets |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
13 January 1975 Tallinn, Estonia |
| Political party | Estonian Centre Party |
Mailis Reps (née Rand, born 13 January 1975 in Tallinn) is an Estonian politician, a member of the Estonian Centre Party. She served as the Minister of Education and Research from 2002 to 2003 and from 2005 to 2007.
Reps was born in Tallinn, Estonia. From 1993 to 1998 she studied law at the Academy Nord in Tallinn. She holds currently two Master degrees: the first in law from the Central European University and the second in public relations from Maastricht University. Since 2001 she is studying international and European law at doctorate level in Uppsala University.
From 2000 to 2001 Mailis Rand worked in the European Commission Directorate-General of Personnel and Administration. Since year 2000 she is also a lecturer of international public law in the Academy Nord and in the Riga Graduate School of Law.
On 28 January 2002 Mailis Rand became the Estonian Minister of Education in the government of Siim Kallas. She was often criticised for her youth and inexperience. Although she was unable to solve several crucial problems of Estonian education, she fought for more funding to education and was elected Friend of Education by Estonian Education Forum in October 2002. Mailis Rand renamed the Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Education and Research (in effect since 1 January 2003) to reflect the central role of this government institution in administration of higher education and research activities.
She was also the Minister to merge two leading academic libraries of Estonia - Estonian Academic Library and Tallinn Pedagogical University Library. The merger was signed on 8 April 2003, 2 days before the resignation of the government.
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