Overview
Andra Levite (born 16 November 1962) is a Latvian gynecologist and obstetrician. Levite, who is married to President Egils Levits, has served as the First Lady of Latvia from 2019 to 2023.
Biography
Levite was born Andra Apines to a Latvian family in West Germany (present-day Germany) on 16 November 1962. She received her medical degree from the University of Giessen in Germany in 1990. Levite married Egils Levits, a Latvian lawyer and politician, in 1991. The couple had two children, Indra and Linards.
From 1990 until 2019, Levite practiced as a gynecology and obstetrics in Luxembourg and Germany. Specifically, she is a certified paediatric and adolescent gynecologist, certified obstetrician, and an ultrasonography specialist. She practices in Latvian, English, German and French.
She returned to Latvia full-time upon the election of her husband as President of Latvia and assumed the role of first lady in July 2019.
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