Katrin Nyman-Metcalf

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Katrin Nyman-Metcalf (born 7 May 1963) is an Estonian-Swedish legal scholar. From 1990 to 1992 she was the State Secretary of Estonia of the Estonian government-in-exile. [1] She was born in Stockholm to Estonian-Swedish engineer Einar Nyman and Estonian textbook author and drawing teacher Edith Kotka-Nyman  [ et ]. In 1987, she graduated from Uppsala University's Faculty of Law. She defended her doctoral thesis in 1999 also in Uppsala. She was the State Secretary of the Estonian government-in-exile from 1990 to 1992. [1]

Since 2010, she teaches at Tallinn University of Technology. [1]

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  1. 1 2 3 "Riigisekretär Katrin Nyman-Metcalf | Riigikantselei". riigikantselei.ee. Retrieved 7 April 2022.