- EDUCATION
- 1990 - University of Latvia, Professional Master’s Degree in Economics
- WORK AND POLITICAL EXPERIENCE
- 2016 – 2019 - Minister for Welfare
- 2014 – 2016 - Minister for Finance
- 2010 – 2014 - Member of the 10th and 11th Saeima,Chairman of the Saeima Budgetary and Finance (Taxation) Committee
- 2014 - Head of the Control Committee at the Nordic Investment Bank
- 2013 – 2014 - Deputy Head of the Control Committee at the Nordic Investment Bank
- 2002 – 2014 - President of the Baltic Assembly, Head of the Latvian delegation to the Baltic Assembly and Member of the Presidium of the Baltic Assembly
- 2006 – 2010 - Member of the 9th Saeima, Secretary to the Legal Commission, Member of the Public Expenditure and Audit Committee
- 2010 - Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health
- 2004 – 2006 - Minister for Special Assignments for Electronic Government Affairs
- 2002 – 2004 - Secretary to the Saeima
- 2002 – 2006 - Member of the 8th Saeima , Member of the Public Expenditure and Audit Committee, Member of the Public Administration and Local Government Affairs’ Commission
- 2001 – 2002 - Member of the Board at chemical plant JSC Spodrība
- 1999 – 2002 - Director and partner at LLC Prudentia
- 1996 – 1999 - Member of the Board, Vice President, Head of Administrative Division at JSC Baltic Trust Bank
- 1993 – 1996 - Head of Credit Division at the German-Latvian Bank