About Jürgen Ligi
Jürgen Ligi (born 16 July 1959) is an Estonian politician, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and a member and the vice-chairman of the liberal Reform Party. He was Minister of Education and Research in Taavi Rõivas' cabinet from 9 April 2015 to 12 September 2016. Previously, Ligi has served as the Minister of Defence from 2005 to 2007 and as the Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2014. == Early life == After graduating from Tartu Second Gymnasium in 1977, he studied geography and foreign economics at the University of Tartu. He also graduated from the Estonian Business School. Ligi has been the Head of the Kuressaare Branch of the EVEA Pank, the Economic Advisor and Business Consultant to the Kaarma Parish Rural Municipality Government, the Head of the Kuressaare Regional Office of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Chief Specialist of the Saaremaa Agro-industrial Association, and the Economist of the Planning Institute of the National Planning Committee. == Political career == === Member of Parliament === Ligi was member of the Riigikogu from 1995 to 2005, from 2007 to 2009 and from 2014 to 2015. === Minister of Defence === From 2005 to 2007, Jürgen Ligi was the Minister of Defence. === Minister of Finance === On 3 June 2009, he was nominated Minister of Finance and sworn in a day later. In October 2014, Ligi raised controversy by bringing up the ethnicity of the Minister of Education and Research Jevgeni Ossinovski.
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