Mart Nutt

In 1980, Nutt graduated from Tallinn Nõmme Gymnasium and later from Tartu University in 1985 with a Master's degree in History and Ethnography.

On 16 December 2011, he defended his PhD thesis in Tallinn University of Technology on the topic "Power of Estonian Parliament, the Formation and Implementation of the Foreign Relations".

He became famous in 1989 in the Independent Youth Organization Res Publica and in 1990 among initiators and founders of The Republican National Coalition.

Nutt was a board member of Pro Patria and Res Publica Union, Jaan Tõnisson Institute, Migration Fund and Estonian Defence League.

He was a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2007 and of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance beginning in 1998.