Andris Teikmanis (29 November 1959;

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...

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n lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He served as first post-soviet

Mayor of Riga Riga City Council ( lv, Rīgas dome) is the government of the city of Riga, the capital of Latvia. Its meeting place is in the Riga Town Hall (''Rīgas rātsnams)'' at the Town Hall Square (''Rātslaukums'') in the very heart of Riga. The Riga ...

from 1990 to 1994. In September 2016 he was accredited as the Latvian ambassador to the United States. He previously served as Under Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riga, and as Latvian ambassador to the Council of Europe, to the Russian Federation, to Germany, and to the United Kingdom, and as non-resident ambassador to Australia and New Zealand. Since August 2019 A. Teikmanis is head of the Chancellery of the President of Latvia

Egils Levits Egils Levits (born 30 June 1955) is a Latvian politician, lawyer, political scientist and jurist who has served as the tenth president of Latvia since 8 July 2019. He was a member of the European Court of Justice from 2004 to 2019. During the la ...

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Andris Teikmanis
at ''Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia'' 1959 births Living people Diplomats from Riga Popular Front of Latvia politicians Deputies of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia Mayors of Riga Ambassadors of Latvia to Germany Ambassadors of Latvia to Russia Ambassadors of Latvia to the United Kingdom Ambassadors of Latvia to the United States Ambassadors of Latvia to Australia Ambassadors of Latvia to New Zealand Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 2nd Class Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{latvia-politician-stub