MAN OF ARTS

• Kristo Tohver, born 1981 in Tartu, Estonia, studied a BA in Public Administration at the University of Tartu from 1999 until 2003. At the same time he also gained work experience, amongst other things as an assistant of the Open Estonian Foundation (Soros), as a sports programme organiser of the students' spring festival at the University of Tartu and as the project manager / fundraising at the Viljandi Folk Festival from 2000 until 2003. After graduating Kristo Tohver worked as a volunteer organiser of Goalkeepers Day for the Crossroad for ideas at the British Council project in 2004 and development and resources manager of "The Tallinn Song Festival Grounds" from 2004 until 2005. In 2005 he worked as the project manager for the 5th European University Volleyball championships at the Estonian Academic Sports Federation and between 2005 and 2006 as the development manager of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. In this period he was also an Erasmus student at the London City University and passed an MA course in Arts Management. Since 2006 he has been the project manager of Estonia as the country of honour at the Goteborg Book Fair 2007 of the Ministry of Culture and managing director of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival since 2007. He obtained his masters in cultural management at the Estonian Academy of Music in 2007.
• and he is a FIFA referee (they forgot to mention that)