Sulev Mäeltsemees

Sulev Mäeltsemees (born 7 August 1947) is an Estonian public administration and local government scholar[1] and generally held to be the father of municipal autonomy in Estonia.[citation needed]

Born in Tallinn, Mäeltsemees received his degrees from the University of Tartu and worked, among others, as director of the Department of Social Infrastructure and Regional Economics of the Institute of Economics of the Estonian Academy of Sciences (1986-1992). He is currently professor and chair of regional policy at Tallinn University of Technology, where he already worked from 1978 to 1986 and currently also serves as dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities.[citation needed]

In 1992-1993 he was chairman of the Tallinn city council, and from 1993-1997 the director of the Estonian Institute of Public Management, the state's central in-service training agency for civil servants.[2]

References

  1. ^ Pechlaner, Harald; Wolf von Holzschuher; Monika Bachinger (2009). Unternehmertum und Public private Partnership. Gabler Verlag. p. 500. ISBN 978-3-8349-1631-0.
  2. ^ Sulev Mäeltsemees. Estonian Research Information System