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Dr. Mart Laar was born in 1960 in Estonia. He studied history at Tartu University, where he obtained his MA in 1995 and PhD in 2005. He participated actively in the restoration of Estonian independence and has been a member of the Estonian parliament since 1992. Mart Laar was the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1992 to 1994 and from 1999 to 2002. During his tenure, he launched reforms that paved the way for Estonia’s rapid economic growth in the course of “Baltic Tiger” period and its admission to E.U. and NATO entry talks. He has also been an economic adviser to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Laar has received several international honours and awards such as the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty from the Cato Institute, the Faith & Freedom Award from the Acton Institute and is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society. Mart Laar has written several books on Estonian and Soviet history, including War in the Woods: Estonia’s Struggle for Survival, 1944–1956, and is a founding member of the Unitas Foundation.