Members of the Fiscal Council

Peter Lhmus

Chair of the Fiscal Council Peter Lõhmus

Peter Lõhmus worked for some two decades as a financial expert at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington. He was also an advisor to the European Commission in 2009‒2013 and Deputy Governor of Eesti Pank in 1997‒2000. He now works as a consultant on various projects at the IMF and the World Bank and is Chair of the Supervisory Board of the think tank Praxis and of the Open Estonia Foundation.

Peter Lõhmus graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Tallinn University of Technology and has a Master’s degree in economic policy management from Columbia University in New York in the USA.

Andrus Alber

Vice-Chair of the Fiscal Council Andrus Alber

Andrus Alber is the chairman of Finora Group. He has worked as Director of Investor Relations at the investment bank Trigon Capital and had two terms as CEO of the NASDAQ Tallinn stock exchange in 2007-2013. Prior to that he worked at Eesti Pank for ten years. He has also worked for the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission, and has been an advisor to the President of the Republic.

Andrus Alber graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Tallinn University of Technology and has a Master’s degree in international relations from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in the USA.

Andres Vrk

Member of the Fiscal Council Andres Võrk

Andres Võrk is an analyst at the Centre of IT Impact Studies (CITIS) at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies at the University of Tartu. He was a social and labour policy analyst at Praxis Centre for Policy Studies from 2001 to 2016 and a researcher and lecturer in the Chair of Economic Modelling at the University of Tartu in 2000-2016.

Andres Võrk graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Tartu and holds a Master’s degree from the same institution.

lo Kaasik

Member of the Fiscal Council Ülo Kaasik

Ülo Kaasik has been Deputy Governor of Eesti Pank since July 2011 and has worked at the central bank since 1999, first as an economist in the research division and then from 2007 as head of the monetary policy division. He also worked for two years as economic adviser to prime minister.

Ülo Kaasik graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Tartu and holds a Master’s degree in economics from Tallinn University of Technology.

Martti Randveer

Member of the Fiscal Council Martti Randveer

Martti Randveer has been Head of the Economics and Research Department at Eesti Pank since 2011. Prior to that he headed the research division for almost ten years, having been an economist in that division for six years before that.

Martti Randveer graduated in Economics from Tallinn University of Technology and holds a Master’s degree and a Doctorate in economics from the same institution.

Karin Jeveer

Member of the Fiscal Council Karin Jõeveer

Karin Jõeveer is the Director of the Department of Economics and Finance at Tallinn University of Technology. She has carried out research at the London School of Economics and lectured at several different universities in the United Kingdom.

She holds a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Tartu and a doctorate from the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education – Economics Institute (CERGE-EI) at Charles University in Czechia.