Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš

Latvian politician

Date of Birth: 13-Dec-1964

Place of Birth: Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Profession: businessperson, politician

Nationality: United States, Latvia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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Arturs Krišjanis Karinš (born 13 December 1964) is an American born Latvian-American linguist, businessman, and politician who has served as Minister of Economics and Member of the European Parliament, and is currently the Prime Minister of Latvia.
Born in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, to parents who had left Latvia during the Soviet occupation, he was active in the American Latvian community throughout his youth.After completing a bachelor's degree and Ph.D in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, Karinš moved to Latvia in 1997 and founded a frozen food business.
He helped found the New Era Party in 2002, which in 2011 merged with others to form the Unity party and was renamed New Unity in 2018.
After serving as a deputy in Saeima, minister of economics, and a member of European parliament throughout the 2000s and 2010s, he was chosen as the prime minister candidate for New Unity in the 2018 Latvian parliamentary election, which became the smallest party elected into the 13th Saeima.
Following months of contentious negotiations in which leaders of the larger parties were unable to form a coalition, Karinš was nominated by President Raimonds Vejonis in January 2019 as a compromise candidate to form a government.
He took office on 23 January 2019, and survived a 58-33 vote of no confidence on 11 April 2019.