Aigars Kalvītis (born 27 June 1966) is a Latvian businessman and a former politician who was the Prime Minister of Latvia from 2004 to 2007.
[1][4] Kalvītis was one of the founders of People's Party of Latvia in 1997 and was first elected to Saeima, the Latvian parliament, in 1998.
On 7 November 2007, Kalvītis announced that he would step down as prime minister on 5 December,[7] after encountering widespread opposition to his dismissal of the head of the anti-corruption bureau, Aleksejs Loskutovs, in the previous month.
Kalvītis remained in office in a caretaker capacity until the appointment of his successor Ivars Godmanis.
And after his political career he has been Chairman of the Council of various well-known companies like Tet (2009), Latvijas Balzams (2009–2015), and Chairman of the Board of enterprises like Hockey Club Dinamo Riga (2010–2015), the operator of Latvian LNG infrastructure Conexus Baltic Grid (2017) and Latvijas Gāze (2015).
He became the president of the Latvian Ice Hockey Federation in October 2016, to succeed Kirovs Lipmans.