Council
The highest decision-making body of the university is the eleven-member University Council, which holds responsibility for the university's economic activities and long-term development, adopts the university's statutes and approves its budget.
The council comprises 11 members, of whom five were nominated by the Senate, one by the Estonian Academy of Sciences (whose nominee can not be an employee of the University of Tartu) and five by the Minister for Education and Research (who is under a duty to seek public advice on his/her nominations and whose nominations should seek to ensure that a majority of council members are not employees of the university).
The Government of the Republic of Estonia approved the new composition of the council of the University of Tartu at their session on 16 February 2017.
In their March 13 session, the Council elected Ruth Oltjer as the Chair.
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Heidi Kakko BaltCap Growth Fund partner |
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UT Council Chair General Manager of Chemi-Pharm AS |
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Chairman of the Board of Sangar AS |
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Vice-chancellor of Uppsala University |
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Managing partner of Raidla Ellex Law Firm |
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Professor of Cardiology, Academician |
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Professor of Economic Policy |
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Professor of Estonian as a Foreign Language |
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Professor of Archaeogenetics, Academician |
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Professor of Psychology of Religion |
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See also: university governance
Additional information: Tõnis Karki, academic secretary, tonis.karki [ät] ut.ee