Career
2009–: Member of European Parliament (ALDE)
2007–: Vice President of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR), member of the ELDR Bureau
2007–: Vice-chair of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, ALDE-PACE Group
2007–2009: First vice-speaker of Riigikogu
2004–2007: Chair of the European Affairs Committee of Riigikogu
2002–2005: Minister of Foreign Affairs
1994–2002: Member of Riigikogu (parliament), member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, chair of the Estonian French parliamentary friendship group (1996 2002)
1996–2002: Head of the Estonian Parliamentary Delegation to PACE; Vice President of the PACE, Member of the Bureau
1999–2002: Leader of the PACE LDR Group
1999–2002: Vice President of the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR), member of the ELDR Bureau
1995–2002: Foreign Secretary of the Estonian Reform Party
1994–1996: Director of the Estonian Broadcasting Association
1993–1994: Permanent Representative of Estonia to the Council of Europe
1992–1993: Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responsible for Council of Europe
1990–1992: Estonian Ministry of Justice, Draft Legislation Department
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“It is a great many years since at the outset of my career I had to think seriously what life had to offer that was worth having. I came to the conclusion that the chief good for me was freedom to learn, think, and say what I pleased, when I pleased. I have acted on that conviction... and though strongly, and perhaps wisely, warned that I should probably come to grief, I am entirely satisfied with the results of the line of action I have adopted.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Work-family conflicts—the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child—would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.”
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—Ruth Behar (b. 1956)