Uldis Sesks (born April 18, 1962, in Liepāja), is a former mayor of

Liepāja Liepāja () (formerly: Libau) is a Administrative divisions of Latvia, state city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea. It is the largest city in the Courland region and the third-largest in the country after Riga and Daugavpils. It is an ...

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and a businessman and former auto racer.

Career

Sesks is the Chairman of the Liepāja Special Economic Zone Authority, the Liepāja Party, the Liepāja Development Fund and a member of the

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. He studied at Liepāja School № 6. Sesks graduated from the Latvian Academy of Agriculture in Jelgava with a degree in mechanical engineering. From 1986-1987, he was chief of the transport department of the

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''Zelta zvaigzne'' (Golden Star). From 1987-1992, he was the vice-president of the board of the kolkhoz ''Zieds'' (Flower) in Vecpils. He improved his knowledge of entrepreneurship in

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within a cooperation project with the

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Chamber of Commerce. In the 1980s, he was active in autosports. At the beginning of the 1990s, he established a private company "Autocentrs", which was later reorganized into "SD Autocentrs" and became the dealership of

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vehicles in Liepāja. He sold his share of the company in 2004. Lursoft IT data In 1997, Sesks was elected the Chairman of the Liepāja City Council (Mayor) and re-elected to this position in 2001 and 2005. At the end of 2004, he established the Liepāja Party which has a cooperation agreement with the Union of Greens and Farmers. He stepped down as mayor in November 2018, taking up a newly established vice-mayoral post. He is married with two daughters, Baiba and Anete, and a son, Mārtiņš Nikijs.

References

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