Sanita Bajāre is Chairwoman of the Board at the Finance Latvia Association, Vice-Chair of Finance Committee of Business at OECD and Vice-chair of the Council of Latvian Employers’ Confederation.

Sanita Bajāre was Manager of the Euro Project at the Ministry of Finance from 2005 to 2011 and State Secretary at the Ministry from 2011 to 2014. From 2012 to 2014, Sanita Bajāre also worked on the Board of the European Investment Bank, and from 2014 to 2016, she was Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank. Between 2016 and 2018, she was responsible for corporate banking services at Citadele Bank.

Sanita Bajāre graduated from Riga Secondary School No. 2 with a silver medal and received her first higher education at the Medical Academy of Latvia in 1996, where she was awarded a medical doctor’s degree with honours. She also received a bachelor’s degree in Economics in 2006 and an honours master’s degree in Financial Economics in 2008.