Viesturs Celmins

Viesturs Celmins is the Managing Director at VEFRESH, the largest IT and urban innovation district in Latvia, since January 2018, focusing on improving infrastructure and integrating industry insights into education. Concurrently, Viesturs serves as a Design Studio Tutor at RISEBA University for graduate and advanced architecture and design students. Previous engagements include roles as a Researcher at Augmented Urbans, coordinating sustainable urban planning projects, and a Project Coordinator at the University of Latvia for the Interreg Europe initiative, "Live Baltic Campus." Academic experience includes a Teaching Assistant position at the University of Cambridge, supervising undergraduate courses in Social Anthropology. Viesturs holds multiple advanced degrees, including a PhD in progress from the University of Cambridge, and has a background in sociology and anthropology from The New School and Rīga Stradiņš University.