Background
RAIG, Ivar was born on March 25, 1953 in Tartu, Estonia. Parents: Helmut Raig and Margarita Raig (née Tomberg).
chairman Estonian Rural Centre Party
RAIG, Ivar was born on March 25, 1953 in Tartu, Estonia. Parents: Helmut Raig and Margarita Raig (née Tomberg).
Graduate, economics department, Estonian Agricultural Academy. Candidate of Sciences (Economics), 1980.
Member, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1977-1990. Member. People's Deputies Congress of the USSR and secretary, agriculture and Food committee, 1989-1990. Founder and Chairman.
Estonian Rural Centre Party. since 1990. Member of the Supreme Council and Assistant Chairman, Economic Committee, since 1990. Chairman, Council of Estonia Economy Commission, 1990.
Founder, Estonian Popular Front in Tartu. Member, Constitutional Assembly, 1991-1992. Member, Baltic Assembly, 1992.
Worked at Institut, of Economy, Academy of Sciences, 1977- and as senior research scientist, since 1989.
Founder and first President, Estonian Young Economists’ Club. Vice-President, Estonian Economics Society. Member, Estonian Scientists’ Association, 1989.
Member, Estonian Farmers’ Central Union Council and Managing Committee. Member. Board ofDirs.,Open Estonia Foundation. Chairman, Popular Front Rural Life Committee.