Lauri Tammiste, Energy and green economy foresight director

Lauri has extensive experience in energy, entrepreneurship and innovation policy. Up until recently he worked as the Director of Energy Department at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, where he was responsible for energy and energy efficiency policy development, implementation and international cooperation.

Among other things, he also helped to put together national renewable energy action plan until 2020 and execute two assigned amount units (CO2) deals worth more than 50 million euros in wind energy and electromobility.

During that time he also served as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of national grid company Elering, where he helped to put in place new strategy and execute injection of additional equity by government into the company and Eurobond emission on London exchange, to ensure adequate financing for that strategy.

Prior to that he lead at the ministry as the Director of Economic Development Department strategic planning in the entrepreneurship and innovation policy and the execution of more than 20 financing programs and instruments by national business development agencies Kredex and Enterprise Estonia. In his capacity as the Head of Economic Analysis Division he acquired an in-depth picture of Estonian economy and varied experience in conducting policy analysis and evaluations.

While working as an Executive Officer of Technology and Innovation Division, he helped to put together national RD and innovation strategy and develop and execute government programs aimed at supporting business sector RD and technological innovation.

He has served also as Member of the Supervisory Board of Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol and participated as an expert in financing committees of Kredex, Enterprise Estonia, Environmental Investment Centre, Archimedes Foundation.

Lauri has studied public administration at the University of Tartu and business and economics at University of Maastricht in Holland. In addition to native Estonian, he also speaks fluent English and if necessary, can manage to maintain a conversation also in Russian and German.

He likes to spend his free time with his family and doing sports. He is raising a daughter and a baby boy.

In sports Lauri feels himself most comfortably at tennis court or on ski slopes. Also, he is always ready to exchange fishing stories and he is convinced that his biggest catch of 1,2 kilo pike is just the beginning.