Tatjana Koķe, dr. habil. paed., professor of Adult Education at the University of Latvia, Director of the doctoral study programme in pedagogy and Doctoral Council member in Pedagogy. Her pedagogic activities encompass master and doctoral programmes – lecturing, supervising and reviewing master and PhD thesis. Under T. Koķe’s supervision 11 students have earned their PhD degree in pedagogy since 1998.

She is also Corresponding Member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Board member of European Adult Education Association and of Latvian Adult Education Association. Since 2005 she is a Member of the UNESCO’s Council of International Bureau of Education in Geneva, Switzerland. Since December 2007 she holds the position of the Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia, prior to that, since April 2006, T. Koķe was the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Science.

Her research interests are focused on democratization of education system in the context of lifelong and lifewide learning and aspects of developing learning society.. T. Koķe has published 57 scientific articles, 22 thesis and two monographs; one of them is devoted to C. G. Jung’s ideas implementation at nowadays school.

She has been a guest lecturer at different European universities in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania and Switzerland.

As a key note speaker she has been invited to different conferences held by UNESCO, Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE), Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe (CICE) and other.