Minister of Justice and Digital Affairs Liisa-Ly Pakosta

Career

• 2023–2024 Member of the 15th Riigikogu, Chair of the European Union Affairs Committee
• 2022 Director General of the National Heritage Board
• 2015–2022 Gender Equality and Equal Treatment Commissioner
• 2009–2014 Member of the 11th and 12th Riigikogu, Deputy Chair of the Anti-Corruption Select Committee (2013–2014)
• 2008–2009 Head of the Planning Department of the Ministry of the Interior
• 2004–2008 Member of the Board of AS Suur Eesti Raamatuklubi, Editor-in-Chief of AS Ühinenud Ajakirjad
• 2005–2009 and 2015–2017 Member of the Tallinn City Council
• 2002–2005 Project Manager at the Estonian Academy of Arts, 2015–2016 Head of Research and Development Department and lecturer
• 1999–2001 Deputy Mayor of Tallinn
• 1998–1999 Head of the Tallinn Cultural Heritage Department
• 1997–1998 Head of the Department of Information and Development at Tallinn City Government
• 1995–1997 Director of ME Tallinn Tourist Information
• 1994–1995 Information clerk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• 1984–1994 Kindergarten teacher, museum educator, and hotel administrator

Education

Liisa-Ly Pakosta graduated from the University of Tartu in 1993 with a degree in history and from Tallinn University in 2021 with a master’s degree in law. She has started her doctoral studies in law at the University of Tartu in 2022.

Awards and Recognition

In 2023 L.-L. Pakosta was awarded the Commander Cross of the Swedish Royal Order of the Polar Star.

Other

Member of the Supervisory Board of the Estonian Open Air Museum in 2013–2015, Member of the Supervisory Board of the Estonian Anti-Doping and Sports Ethics Foundation since 2019.
Her hobbies are crafting, culture, working out, and pets.