First and last names                            Raimonds Jansons

Date and place of birth                      26 February 1971, Riga, Latvia

Citizenship                                             Latvian

Education

• 2004 – Masters in Law, University of Latvia
• 1993 – Lawyer's diploma, University of Latvia

Additional education

• 2023 – French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State Protocol Course, Paris, France
• 2016 – NATO Senior Officials Strategic Communication Course, NATO School Oberammergau, Gennany
• 2002-2003 – French-Latvian inter-university diploma in EU studies, University of Nancy, France
• 1992 – Faculty of Law Summer School study certificate, Uppsala University

Professional experience

• 2023-2025 – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, Head of the State Protocol
• 2017-2022 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Estonia
• 2016-2017 – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, Director General for Communications-Press Secretary
• 2015-2016 – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, Press Secretary
• 2011-2015 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary/Permanent Representative of Latvia to the UN in Geneva
• 2010- present – Non-resident Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to South Africa
• 2006-2011 – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Belgium
• 2006-2012 – Non-resident Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
• 2004-2006 – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, Department of International Organizations and Human Rights, Director
• 2003-2004 – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, Legal Department, Director
• 1998-2002 – Permanent Mission of the Republic of Latvia to the UN in Geneva, Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission
• 1996-1998 – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, Legal Department, Director
• 1994-1996 – Embassy of the Republic of Latvia in Canada, Second Secretary
• 1994 – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, International Law Division, Head of Division

Head of Delegations

• 2013-2015 – Member of the Advisory Board of the UN Trade and Development Commission
• 2014-2015 – Head of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons - Amended Protocol II Annual Conference
• 2004- 2006 – Member of the Committee of Senior Officials of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS)
• 2003; 2004 – Latvia-Norway, Latvia-Slovakia, Latvia-Israel and Latvia­-Poland negotiations on agreements for the protection of classified information

Language skills                

• Latvian
• English
• Russian
• French

Marital status

Married                                  

Awards

• 2024 – Order of the Phoenix of the Hellenic Republic
• 2024 – National Order of Merit of the Republic of Malta
• 2023 – Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
• 2019 – Order of Terra Mariana of the Republic of Estonia
• 2007 – Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold I of the Kingdom of Belgium
• 2006 – Grand cross of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

September 2025