Ingmārs Čaklais

Ingmārs Čaklais (born April 27, 1971, in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian director, educator, public relations specialist, lawyer, and politician. He has served as a deputy in the 10th and 11th Saeimas (Latvian Parliament), representing the Unity party. He is the son of poet and publicist Māris Čaklais.

Biography Ingmārs Čaklais was born into the family of poet and publicist Māris Čaklais and actress Valda (Freimute) Čaklais. He received his education at Riga Secondary School No. 49 (1989), the Latvian Academy of Music (1993), the University of Latvia (1995), and the Baltic International Academy (2007, 2009).

In the early 1990s, Ingmārs Čaklais worked as the head of the Cultural House School Theater under the Ministry of Education, as a director for children's and youth programs at Latvian Television, as a teacher at Riga French Lyceum, as well as the head of the "Tunelis" theater and as a teacher at Riga English Gymnasium where he led the theater group "Tragic Bunch" (TS RAĢ TRAĢ).

In 2016, a judgment was passed declaring Ingmārs Čaklais guilty of substantial tax evasion.

Ingmārs Čaklais joined the Civic Union party in 2010 and was elected to the 10th Saeima from the coalition list of the Unity party. A year later, he also ran in the extraordinary 11th Saeima elections but was not elected. However, on November 3, 2011, during Valdis Dombrovskis temporary tenure as the Prime Minister, Ingmārs Čaklais assumed the position of a Member of Parliament.

In 2013, due to financial and health issues, Ingmārs Čaklais resigned from his position as a Member of Parliament and left Latvia.