PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Since November 2018 – National Film Centre of Latvia, Head of Production and Development
- 2002 - 2018 – The State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, Program curator
- 2001 - 2002 – National newspaper Diena, reporter in National news department
- 2000 - 2001 – PriceWaterhouseCoopers Latvia, auditor
- 1999 - 2000 – Non-Governmental Organizations’ Center, Regional program co-ordinator
- 1997 - 1998 – PHARE European Integration programme, Project's administrative assistant
EDUCATION
- 2005 - 2006 – De Montfort University (Leicester, Great Britain), postgraduate course in Cultural Planning
- 1998 - 1999 – Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), Master of Arts, Politics and Political Economy
- 1996 - 2000 – University of Latvia (Riga, Latvia), Faculty of History and Philosophy, Bachelor program of Philosophy
- 1995 - 1997 – Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (Latvia), Bachelor of Science, Economics and Business Administration
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
- July 1999 – Scholarship provided by Open Society Institute of Macedonia for participation in the summer school The Image of the Other
- May 1999 - June 1999 Research grant from Soros Foundation Fellowship for MA research project (Budapest, Hungary and Riga, Latvia)
- July 1997 – Scholarship provided by The College of New Europe, Course: Basic Social, Cultural and Economic Problems of New Europe, Krakow, Poland
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
- Latvian: mother tongue;
- English and Russian: fluent;
- French, German: basic conversational