Expertise:
•    NATO
•    Security policy

In 1996 he became Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia to the BENELUX countries and NATO. Since 1999 he was a member of Government of the Republic of Estonia, Minister of Defence and later Minister of Foreign Affairs. Later he served as an Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia to Canada, United States and Mexico. Since 2007 he has been serving as the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Estonia to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He is married and has one son.