Kaspars Briškens

Kaspars Briškens (born 12 November 1982) is a Latvian politician, economist, and a former diplomat. In the 2022 parliamentary election, Kaspars Briškens was a candidate for the post of prime minister of the Progressives party.

Biography He graduated from the International Baccalaureate program of the Riga State Gymnasium No.1. In 2005, he obtained a bachelor's degree in economics and business management at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. In 2011, he obtained a scientific master's degree in economics at Stockholm University.

In 2005, he started working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a senior reporter. From 2007 to 2011, he was an economic and political diplomat, working at the Embassy of Latvia in Sweden. In 2011, he became the deputy head of the Foreign Trade and Investment Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, leaving the position after two months in favor of working in the Ministry of Transport as a ministerial advisor. During 4 years from 2011 to 2015, he held the position of both ministerial advisor and deputy state secretary in the Ministry of Transport.

In 2014, he started working for RB Rail (Rail Baltica), initially as a member of the board, later holding the position of head of strategy and development. From 2021, he is a member of the board of the Pasažieru vilciens company.

Since 2019, Kaspars is also the annual good governance lecturer in the training programs of the Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance. He was also an advisor to two transport ministers. In the company RB Rail, in the position of head of strategy and development, he managed the development, commercialization and digitalization of the project. In the project, he ensured the inclusion of Riga International Airport in the Rail Baltica railway route. After leaving Movement For!, joined the non-partisan expert group "PRO Platform". For the 2022 parliamentary election, the "Progressives" party nominated Briškens as its candidate for the post of prime minister.