Signe Viimsalu, Head of Administrative Division / lawyer

Signe Viimsalu is the lawyer and head of administrative division at the Development Fund. She is responsible for all legal and in-house matters (quality management, financial planning, bookkeeping and digital documentation management) as well as the juridical topics of the clients' investment projects.

She has aMaster's degree (mag iur) from Tartu University (She also has a BA degree from Tartu University (jurisprudence). Currently she is writing her doctoral thesis on International insolvency legislation in the Netherlands.

Signe has previously worked as a lawyer at Intrum Iustitia, Europe's leading Credit Management Services company, as a lawyer and head of the legal department at Enterprise Estonia and as a counsellor for insolvency and restructuring matters in the Liberal Professions and Legal Registers Division at the Ministry of Justice.

She has passed several programmes and courses in the fields of economics, marketing, communication, project financing, public private partnership, strategic management, quality management and human resources management. Additionally she has taken part in several international seminars and conferences in Europe and United States related to topics of public and private law.

She is always one of the key team-players, is not afraid of responsibility or complicated tasks and does not take „no" for an answer easily. Her hobbies consist of improvement of herself in different areas such as quality management, strategic management, self-management, finance, law. In her free time, she enjoys travelling, sailing and playing tennis.