Sandra Kalniete

Riga, Latvia

European Parliament

Welcome to my Facebook profile. Here I will try to inform you about my work in the European Parliament. If you have any recommendations please do not hesitate to contact me or my staff at the European Parliament. Kalniete was born in Togur, Tomsk Oblast, Russia where her family was deported from Latvia during the Soviet occupation. She studied art at Latvian Academy of Art from 1977 to 1981 and worked as an art historian, publishing a book, Latvian textile art, in 1989. She joined politics in 1988, during Latvia's independence movement, and was a deputy chairwoman of Latvian Popular Front, the main pro-independence political organization. After Latvia declared independence, Kalniete wo