- EDUCATION
- 2017 - 2019 - Master's Degree in the “Urban and Regional Engineering Economics” programme at Riga Technical University
- 2011 - 2016 - Bachelor's Degree in the “Mechanical Engineering” programme at Riga Technical University
- 2014 - Erasmus programme at Danish Technical University
- 1999 - 2011 - Bauska Secondary School No. 1
- WORK AND POLITICAL EXPERIENCE
- June 2020 – present – Member of the 13th Saeima, Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee
- January 2020 – present – Board Member of the Association of Parties “Development/For!”
- November 2019 – present – Member of the 13th Saeima, Chairman of the Administrative-Territorial Reform Committee
- October 2019 - present – Member of the 13th Saeima, Member of the Public Administration and Local Government Committee
- 2019 – present Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development
- 2018 – present – Member and Deputy Chair of the Saeima faction of the Republic of Latvia “Development/For!”, Chairman of the National Economy, Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Policy Committee, Climate Policy Sub-Committee
- December 2018 – present – Member of the Latvian delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union
- November 2018 – June 2020 – Member of the 13th Saeima, Member of the Committee on Citizenship, Migration and Social Cohesio
- June 2017 - October 2018 – Member of the Bauska Municipality Council
- October 2016 - present – Board Member of the Party "For Latvia’s Development”
- March 2015 - May 2017 – Communications Consultant for the Party “For Latvia’s Development”
- April 2013 - September 2014 – JSC “Ceļuprojekts”, bridge construction technician
- LANGUAGE SKILLS
- Latvian –native, English-fluent, Russian - conversational level
Arturs Toms Plešs
Minister for Environmental Protection and Regional Development
arturs.toms.pless [at] varam.gov.lv