Since July 2025
Ambassador-at-Large, European Union Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
09/2021 - 07/2025
Ambassador to Sweden
09/2019 - 09/2021
Head of the International Organizations and Human Rights Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2019
Professor of European Politics, Riga Graduate School of Law
09/ 2015 - 08/2019
Ambassador & Permanent Representative to the OPCW, co-accredited to Belgium & Luxembourg, residing in the Netherlands
2013 - 2019
Associate Professor of European Politics, Riga Graduate School of Law
02/2013 – 08/2015
Head of the European Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2012 - 2013
Lecturer in European Politics, Riga Graduate School of Law
2011 - 2013
Visiting Lecturer in European Politics, Euro College, University of Tartu, Estonia
2009 - 2011
Visiting Lecturer in European Politics, Riga Graduate School of Law
2009 - 2011
Lecturer in European Politics, University of Salzburg
2009
Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University
2009
Seconded Expert for the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
08/2006 - 02/2009
First Secretary, Embassy of Latvia in Austria
01/2006 - 08/2006
Head of the COREPER I Division, EU Coordination Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
08/2004 - 12/2005
Deputy Head of the COREPER I Division, EU Coordination Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
09/2003 - 08/2004
Second Secretary, COREPER I Division, EU Coordination Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
08/2002 - 09/2003
Second Secretary, EU Directorate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs