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Egils Levits was born on 30 June 1955 in Riga, Latvia. He is a Latvian judge, jurist and politician. He graduated from the University of Latvia in 1979 with a degree in law. He then went on to pursue a career in law, becoming a judge in the Supreme Court of Latvia in 1992.
Levits was appointed as the Minister of Justice in 2002 and served in that position until 2004. He was then appointed as the President of the Supreme Court of Latvia in 2004 and served in that position until 2019.
In 2019, Levits was elected as the President of Latvia, becoming the first non-partisan president in the country's history. He was sworn in on 8 July 2019.
Levits is married to his wife, Inese, and they have two children.
As of 2021, Egils Levits's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million. He has earned his wealth through his career as a judge, jurist and politician.
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68 years old |
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Cancer |
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30 June, 1955 |
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30 June |
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Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union (now Latvia) |
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Egils Levits Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Egils Levits's Wife?
His wife is Andra Levite (m. 1991)
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Ingeborga Levita Jonass Levits |
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Andra Levite (m. 1991) |
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Indra Levite |
Egils Levits Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Egils Levits worth at the age of 68 years old? Egils Levits’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from . We have estimated
Egils Levits's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
He was named a presidential candidate by the National Alliance party in 2011 and 2015, coming second in votes in the final round to minister of defense Raimonds Vējonis in 2015. Levits was widely discussed as a potential front runner candidate for the presidency in early 2019, and on April 15 the parties of the ruling coalition announced that they would support Levits' candidacy. Latvia's parliament elected him on 29 May 2019.
He was inaugurated in the Saeima on 8 July 2019. During his inaugural speech, he noted that "there is no ideal country, because that implies halted progress." After the ceremony, he visited the Freedom Monument, laid flowers at the grave of Jānis Čakste, and received the keys to Riga Castle from outgoing President Raimonds Vējonis. On July 10, he conducted his first foreign visit to Tallinn, Estonia, meeting with President Kersti Kaljulaid and Prime Minister Jüri Ratas.
On the 7 December 2019 episode of Saturday Night Live, Levits was portrayed by Alex Moffat, in a sketch that poked fun at Donald Trump's experience at the 2019 NATO summit.
Levits is married to Andra Levite, a gynecologist, and has a son named Linards and a daughter named Indra. In 2019, Levits released his first book Valstsgriba. Idejas un domas Latvijai 1985–2018 (Country's Will: Ideas and thoughts for Latvia 1985–2018) where he mentions articles, interviews and combines them with his personal opinion as a Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union. Aside from his native Latvian language, he also knows German (from his time in Germany), English, French and Russian.
In 1995, Levits was elected representative of Latvia for European Court of Human Rights. Since 2004, he has been Latvia's representative to the European Court of Justice, where the mandate will expire in 2024.
During the late Soviet-era he was a member of the Popular Front of Latvia and contributed to the declaration of renewed Latvian independence in 1990. He was Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Justice of Latvia from 1993 to 1994 and ambassador to Hungary, Austria and Switzerland from 1994 to 1995. He was then appointed a Judge of the European Court of Human Rights, a position he held until 2004. He finished second in the indirect election for President of Latvia in 2015 behind Raimonds Vējonis. Although an Independent, he was the candidate of the National Alliance. In 2018, Levits was reappointed a Judge of the European Court of Justice, having first been appointed in 2004. He is married and has two children, a son, Linards, and daughter, Indra. He published a book of memoirs in 2019.
Levits has been involved in Latvian politics since the late 1980s. Levits became a member of the Popular Front of Latvia and a member of the Latvian Citizens' Congress established in 1989. Later, he joined the political club "Klubs 21" and in 1993 was elected a 5th Saeima deputy from the list of the party Latvijas Ceļš. In 2016, he was among the best paid EU officials. In 2018, he was named "European Man of the Year in Latvia" by the European Movement – Latvia.
Levits was born in Riga, Latvia, during Soviet occupation into the family of Latvian Jewish engineer Jonass Levits and his wife, Latvian-Baltic German poet Ingeborga Levita (née Barga, pen name Aija Zemzare). In 1972, the family was expelled from the USSR for their Soviet dissident activities and settled in West Germany, where Ingeborga's relatives lived. They lived in West Germany until 1990 when Latvia regained its independence.
Egils Levits (born 30 June 1955) is a Latvian lawyer, political scientist and judge who is the President of Latvia since 8 July 2019. He was a Member of the European Court of Justice from 2004 to 2019.
