Andrejs Pildegovičs


Andrejs Pildegovičs is the state secretary for Foreign Affairs of Latvia. From 2007 to 2012 he was the ambassador of Latvia to the United States. He became ambassador on July 18, 2007. He was sent to America in June 2007, after Valdis Zatlers was elected President of Latvia. Pildegovičs attended Oxford University from 1998 to 1999 in the foreign language department. Shortly after he attended Oxford University, came the birth of his second child, Eva Pildegoviča. He worked as the chief of staff in the Chancery of the President of Latvia from 2006 to 2007. He was a foreign policy adviser to the President from 2000 to 2006. Pildegovičs was in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as head of the Middle East and Africa division, from 1999 to 2000. He studied Chinese history at the University of St. Petersburg. He also studied at the Beijing Foreign Language Institute.
He is married and has three children.