Ambassador – Lisbon

Professional career

2018 – Ambassador of Estonia to Portugal and non-resident ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco;

2017-2018 Director of the Division for Western Europe, Department for European Affairs, MFA;

2015- 2016 Director of the Division for Western Europe and North America, Department of Europe and Transatlantic Cooperation, MFA;

2012-2014 accompanied her husband, Ambassador J. Luik on his assignment to the Russian Federation;

2010-2012 Counsellor in the Permanent Representation of Estonia to the EU (relations with the EP, General Affairs Group, institutional affairs);

2003-2009 accompanied her husband on his assignments as Ambassador to the United States of America and as Permanent Representative to NATO;

2001-2003 Director for Western Europe and North America, Political Department, MFA; non-resident ambassador to Andorra;

1998-2001 Ambassador to France; Permanent Representative to UNESCO;

1996-1998 Chargé d’Affaires, opened the Estonian Embassy in Rome, Italy;

1994-1996 Desk-officer- countries of Southern Europe and Benelux, the Holy See; Political department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

1993-1994 Head of Secretariat, Office of the President of Estonia;

1989-1992 Expert on French affairs, Estonian Institute; reopened Alliance Française in Tallinn;

1991-1996 Lecturer in French language at Estonian Institute of Humanities/Tallinn University

Education:

1987-1989 graduated with MA degree in Romance languages and literature (French, Italian), Moscow State University;

1983-1987 studies of Romance languages and literature, University of Tartu;

Ambassador Lausma Luik speaks English, French, Russian and Italian. She is married and has a son.