DECEMLAND LATVIA Country Profile
LATVIA GLOBAL SUMMARY TABLE IN FINAL PAGES Decemland World is a global initiative. Our goal is to dream of, imagine, design and communicate a beautiful long-term future for every country and territory and for the World. We think it’s possible to reach a World without extreme poverty before 2050, a World of Eutopia and Cornucopia. We have launched a worldwide recruitment process identifying and subsequently contacting millions of experts in every corner of the globe. Decemland Latvia encourages individual Experts to join the best team ever design to serve the longterm public interest of society. We are contacting thousands of Experts in every country and territory. Our goal is to put together a dream team in Latvia able to identify the great challenges of the twentyfirst century. Figures updated as of 26-May-2014
LATVIA POPULATION (2014) 2.165.165 LATVIA EXPERTS CONTACTED 4.178 EXPERTS PER 100,000 PEOPLE CONTACTED 193 EXPERTS WHO HAVE JOINED 6 RESPONSE RATE 0,14% EXPERTS CONTACTED IN EUROPEAN UNION 626.070 AVERAGE TEAM SIZE IN EUROPEAN UNION 14,26 EXPERTS WHO HAVE JOINED IN EUROPEAN UNION 385 EXPERTS WHO HAVE JOINED WORLDWIDE 2.739 Latvia Country Coordinator/s
JANIS RATKEVICS Janis Ratkevics was born in 1983. He completed a bachelor’s in economics in 2006 at the Latvian University of Economics and Management, having subsequently began a master’s public administration in 2007. From 2006 to 2009 Janis worked as a project manager in the Vangazi town council municipality, administrating European funds to local pojects. He has worked as a selfemployed project manager from 2009 to 2010. Since 2010 he has been working as a parliamentary deputy assistant in the capital city of Riga. As such his responsibilities include the coordination of the development of the political party program. He has been a national guard member since 2002. He is interested in martial arts, outdoor survival, geopolitics, new technologies.
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