Eva-Maria Liimets has been the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia since January 2021. She began her career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1997. From 2017 to 2021, she served as Estonian Ambassador in the Czech Republic with co-accreditation in Slovenia and Croatia. Prior to this, she was Advisor to the European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2017–2018, Consul General in New York from 2014 to 2017, Director of the Office of International Organisations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2014, First Secretary of the Embassy and later Vice Head of the Embassy in Washington, DC from 2006 to 2009, Second Secretary of the Political Department from 2003 to 2006 and Economic Diplomat in the Embassy in Rome from 1999 to 2003.