Artis Pabriks

Artis Pabriks (22 March 1966; Jūrmala, Latvia) is a Latvian politician and former Foreign Minister of Latvia. [cite web|url=http://www.am.gov.lv/en/ministry/minister/ArtisPabriks/ |title=Artis Pabriks |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia |accessdate=2008-10-04]

Artis Pabriks has a degree in history from University of Latvia (1992) and a Ph.D. in political science from University of Aarhus, Denmark (1996). After finishing his Ph.D., he became the rector of Vidzemes augstskola, a newly founded regional college located in Valmiera, Latvia. He has taught at Vidzemes Augstskola since then. He has co-authored two books: "Latvia: Challenge of Change" (2001) and "The Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania" (2002), both of which are published by Routledge.

Pabriks joined politics as one of founding members of Tautas Partija ("People's Party") in 1998 and became a member of Saeima, the Latvian parliament in March 2004. He was appointed the Foreign Minister on July 21, 2004, and he resigned from that position in October 2007.

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* [http://www.worldwhoswho.com/views/entry.html?id=sl1137761 PABRIKS, Artis] International Who's Who. accessed September 1, 2006.