Mart Siimann | |
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12th Prime Minister of Estonia | |
In office 17 March 1997 – 25 March 1999 |
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President | Lennart Meri |
Preceded by | Tiit Vähi |
Succeeded by | Mart Laar |
Personal details | |
Born |
Kilingi-Nõmme, Estonia |
21 September 1946
Political party | Estonian Coalition Party |
Alma mater | University of Tartu |
Mart Siimann (born 21 September 1946) was the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1997 to 1999, representing the liberal/centrist Estonian Coalition Party. He was the president of the Estonian Olympic Committee from 2001 to 2012.
Born at Kilingi-Nõmme, Siimann studied at the University of Tartu from 1965 to 1971. In 1971, he graduated as a philologist-psychologist. From 1989 to 1992, he was the director of the Estonian Television and from 1992 to 1995, Managing Director of Advertising Television Co. He was a member of the Estonian Parliament from 1995 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2003, elected as a Coalition Party member (but since 2001 served as the chairman of the centre-left/social democratic association "Mõistuse ja Südamega" ("With Reason and Heart")).