Edgars Skuja

Skuja presenting his credentials to Dmitry Medvedev in May 2009. Edgars Skuja (born 20 February 1966 He has also taken part in study programs in Austria, South Korea, and Germany.

Skuja began his diplomatic career in 1993 at the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then worked as Head of the CIS Countries at the ministry. He served as Director of the Second Political Department from 1996 to 1998 and led the Latvian Delegation to the OSCE in Vienna from 1998 to 2002.

From September 2013 to August 2017, Skuja was Ambassador to Austria, with additional non-resident accreditation to Slovakia, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland. He then returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Ambassador and Director of the Security Policy Department from 2017 to 2019. He served as Permanent Representative of Latvia to NATO from 2019 to 2023.

Edgars Skuja has received several awards, including certificates of recognition from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia in 1999 and the Cabinet of Ministers in 2000, as well as the Baltic Assembly Medal in 2007.

Skuja speaks Latvian, English, Russian and German. He is married and has two daughters.