Indrek Teder (born 3 December 1957,

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

) is an

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and

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. From 2008 to 2015 he was the

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Biography

He graduated from the

University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is also the largest and oldest university in the country.

, Faculty of Law in 1983, and joined the Estonian Bar Association in the same year. He was a member of the

Congress of Estonia The Congress of Estonia (Estonian: ''Eesti Kongress'') was a grassroots parliament elected in February 1990 in then Soviet-occupied Estonia and actively participating in the popular nonviolent resistance to the Soviet rule, which resulted in the ...

. He belongs to the

Estonian Students' Society The Estonian Students' Society (; commonly used acronym: EÜS) is the largest and oldest all-male academical student society in Estonia, and is similar to the Baltic Germans, Baltic German student organizations known as German Student Corps, c ...

Decorations

*2001: 4th Class of the Order of the White Star (received 23 February 2001) *2015: 3rd Class of the Order of the National Coat of Arms (received 23 February 2015)

References

1957 births Living people Ombudsmen in Estonia 20th-century Estonian lawyers University of Tartu alumni People from Tallinn Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 3rd Class 20th-century Estonian politicians 21st-century Estonian politicians 21st-century Estonian lawyers {{Europe-law-bio-stub