Raimond Kaljulaid

Raimond Kaljulaid
Member of the Riigikogu
Incumbent
Assumed office
30 March 2019
Personal details
Born (1982-01-27) 27 January 1982 (age 42)
Tallinn, Estonia
Political partySocial Democratic Party (2019–present)
Other political
affiliations		Centre Party (2001–2019)
Spouse(s)
Olga Makina
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(m. 2008; div. 2016)​

Jane Palm
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(m. 2019)​
RelativesKersti Kaljulaid (half-sister)
EducationSecondary education[1]

Raimond Kaljulaid (born 27 January 1982)[2] is an Estonian politician and a member of the Estonian Parliament since 2019. Kaljulaid has served on the Foreign Affairs Committee, was Deputy Chair of European Union Affairs Committee 2021–2022, Chair of National Defence Committee 2022–2023. Currently he is a member of the National Defence Committee and Security Authorities Surveillance Select Committee and also serves on the Estonian Public Broadcasting Council 2023.[3]

Kaljulaid is also chair of the Estonia-Japan friendship group in parliament[4] and leads a parliamentary group promoting the Estonian Defence Industry[5].

In 2019 Kaljulaid was elected in the list of Centre Party, but quit the party in protest of Centre Party's decision to form a coalition cabinet with the Conservative People's Party,[6] and joined the Social Democratic Party in November 2019 and was re-elected as a Member of Parliament in 2024.

  1. ^ "Candidate No. 924 – Raimond Kaljulaid". valimised.ee. Estonian Electoral Office. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  2. ^ Business Registry Search
  3. ^ https://www.riigikogu.ee/en/parliament-of-estonia/composition/members-riigikogu/saadik/989194b6-b6cc-4c8f-9e6a-8eb8913d103e/raimond-kaljulaid/
  4. ^ https://www.riigikogu.ee/riigikogu/parlamendiruhmad/parlamendiruhm/cca2789f-5655-dfed-d6b4-0c9c72716e24/eesti-jaapani-parlamendiruhm/
  5. ^ https://www.riigikogu.ee/riigikogu/uhendused/uhendus/dd2bc9bd-1759-4914-bb33-785b506752e5/eesti-kaitsetoostuse-toetusruhm/
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference quit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).