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The open competition for the position of Director of the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) has concluded. The Minister of Economics has decided to appoint Ieva Jāgere to the role.
Ieva Jāgere is a financial and investment expert with over 15 years of experience in corporate finance. She has led high-volume investment attraction deals and, until now, worked at the financial institution ALTUM. Additionally, Jāgere is a managing partner at the financial and investment consultancy Callidus Capital and an independent member of the Internal Audit Committee at Indexo.
From 2016 to 2022, Jāgere served as CEO of Callidus Capital. Prior to that, she spent more than three years as Head of Corporate Finance at Oaklins Baltics, where she was responsible for investment attraction and deal management for various clients.
The newly appointed LIAA Director holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and a Master’s degree in International Economics and Business from the University of Latvia.
As previously reported, the selection process consisted of three stages and attracted 18 applicants.
During the first stage, the selection committee reviewed the submitted documents and assessed the candidates’ compliance with mandatory requirements. In the second stage, candidates presented their motivation for taking on the role, answered questions from the committee, and shared their vision for LIAA’s priority development directions, including whether any existing strategies should be discontinued. In the third stage, candidates’ leadership competencies were evaluated, including their strategic vision, focus on achieving results, decision-making ability, accountability, change management skills, and team leadership capabilities.
Details about the composition of the selection committee are available on the website of the State Chancellery.