Toivo Maimets
Toivo Maimets is an Estonian biologist. From 2003 to 2005 he was the Minister of Education of Estonia, representing the Res Publica Party.Maimets studied at the Miina Härma Gymnasium and the Tartu Tamme Gymnasium. He graduated in 1975. After graduating from high school he went to study biology at the University of Tartu, graduating in 1980. In 1984 he received a Candidate of Sciences degree at Moscow State University in molecular biology.Honors
Maimets is married and has three children. His brother, Matti Maimets, is the head of the Infection Department at the Tartu University Clinic. His father, Olev Maimets was a professor of anatomy at the University of Tartu.
