Piret Hartman

Piret Hartman was born on 10 August 1981. She is cohabiting with a partner and has two daughters. Hartman joined the Estonian Social Democratic Party in 2012. Prior to that, she was a member of the People’s Union of Estonia in 2004–2010.

Employment history and career

• In 2024-2025, she was the Minister of Regional Affairs and Agriculture
• In 2023-2024, she was the Minister of Regional Affairs
• Head of the Strategy Unit of the Ministry of Finance in 2024.
• In autumn 2023, she worked as a project manager at the Ministry of Regional Affairs and Agriculture.

• In 2022–2023, she was the Minister of Culture.

• In 2016–2022, she served as the Undersecretary of Cultural Diversity.
• In 2015–2016, she was an adviser of the Minister of Culture.
• In 2015–2021, she was a board member of the Integration Foundation and in 2021–2022, served as the Chairman of its Supervisory Board.
• In 2014–2015, she worked as an adviser of the Social Democratic faction in Riigikogu.
• In 2010–2013, she was the general and campaign manager of the Social Democratic Party.
• In 2005–2008, she worked as an adviser for the People’s Union of Estonia; in 2009–2010, she was the party’s adviser and Manager of the Secretariat.
• In 2004–2007, she was a board member of the Estonian Film Foundation.
• In 2002–2003, she was the Deputy Chairman and later the Chairman of the Management Board of the Federation of Estonian Student Unions.

Education

Piret Hartman graduated from the Estonian University of Life Sciences in 2003 with a degree in agricultural economics and entrepreneurship and a master’s degree in economics and entrepreneurship in 2006; in 2022, she graduated from the Tallinn University of Technology with a degree in digital transformation in business. She speaks Estonian, English, Russian and German.

Other

Hartman received the Keychange Inspiration Award at the 2022 Tallinn Music Week.