Edgars Zalāns
Latvian Politician and Architect
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| Intro | Latvian Politician and Architect | |
| Places | Latvia | |
| is | Politician Architect | |
| Work field | Engineering Politics | |
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| Birth | 3 September 1967, Kuldīga | |
| Age | 57 years | |
| Politics: | People's Party |
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Edgars Zalāns (born September 3, 1967, Kuldīga) is a Latvian politician and architect. He was Minister of Regional Development and Local Governments of Latvia from 8 November 2007 to 17 March 2010.
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Zalāns graduated from Riga Technical University in 1992, obtaining a diploma of architecture followed by a post-graduate certificate in Planning from the University of Queensland in 1994. From 1992 until 1994 he was a key architect in the Kuldīga district. For several years he worked as the district council and Kuldīga City Hall. During the period from 2001 until 2007 he was a member of the Kuldīga City Council. In 2007 Edgars Zalāns became the Minister of Regional Development, a post he held until 2010.