Kaja Kallas
Kaja Kallas (born 18 June 1977) is an Estonian politician. She is currently a Member of the European Parliament elected from Estonia and belongs to the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. She has previously worked as an attorney-at-law and been a Member of the Parliament of Estonia (Riigikogu). She is also a Vice-Chairman of the Estonian Reform Party. In the European Parliament Kaja Kallas is a Vice-Chair of the Delegation to the EU–Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. In addition she serves on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and is a member of the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. She is a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and the Delegation for relations with the United States. [1]
In the 2014 election of the European Parliament Kallas received 21 498 votes. In 2011 election, when she ran for the Parliament of Estonia, she received 7157 votes.
As an attorney, she specialises in the European and Estonian competition law as well as on digital single market and energy.
She was a member of the XII composition of the Parliament of Estonia and the Chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee from 2011 to 2014. Kallas is a member of the Estonian Bar Association since 1999 and an attorney-at-law since 2002. She has been a partner in law firms Luiga Mody Hääl Borenius and Tark & Co and worked as a trainer in the Estonian Business School. She is also a member of the European Antitrust Alliance. As of 26 March 2011 she has been placed on inactive status as a member of the Estonian Bar Association.
Kaja Kallas is the daughter of Siim Kallas, the former Chairman of the Estonian Reform Party and the former Vice-President of the European Commission.
References
- ↑ Biography on Estonian Parliament site
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