Mart Siimann

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Mart Siimann
Siimann in 2010
12th Prime Minister of Estonia
In office 17 March 1997 – 25 March 1999
President	Lennart Meri
Preceded by	Tiit Vähi
Succeeded by	Mart Laar
Personal details
Born	(1946-09-21) 21 September 1946 (age 78) Kilingi-Nõmme, Estonia
Political party	Estonian Coalition Party
Alma mater	University of Tartu

Mart Siimann (born 21 September 1946) was the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1997 to 1999, representing the liberal/centrist Estonian Coalition Party.^[1] He was the president of the Estonian Olympic Committee from 2001 to 2012.^[1]

Born at Kilingi-Nõmme, Siimann studied at the University of Tartu from 1965 to 1971. In 1971, he graduated as a philologist-psychologist. From 1989 to 1992, he was the director of the Estonian Television and from 1992 to 1995, Managing Director of Advertising Television Co. He was a member of the Estonian Parliament from 1995 to 1997, and from 1999 to 2003, elected as a Coalition Party member (but since 2001 served as the chairman of the centre-left/social democratic association "Mõistuse ja Südamega" ("With Reason and Heart")).