Evelin Ilves in the media

Presidential couple to visit Ruhnu island

2016-07-20T07:02:51Z

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Ieva Ilves will visit Ruhnu island to meet the local people and open a photo exhibition depicting the life of the people of Ruhnu.

Ieva Ilves: the family of SOS Children’s Village will remain a support throughout life

2016-06-17T05:27:49Z

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Ieva Ilves, who is a patron of SOS Children's Villages, last night visited the family of SOS Keila Children's Village as it celebrated its 21st birthday.

Ieva Ilves in the children’s ward of Narva hospital: it is good and necessary that children should get high level medical treatment in their home town

2016-05-03T11:32:49Z

"It is good and necessary that the children of Narva can receive modern, high level medical treatment here in their home town," said Ieva Ilves, who today visited the children's ward of Narva Hospital, which is run by doctor Reet Välja, who has worked in this hospital for over thirty years.

President Ilves and Ieva Ilves to visit Ida-Viru County

2016-05-02T05:20:59Z

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Ieva Ilves will make a working visit to Ida-Viru County today and tomorrow.

President Ilves and Ieva Ilves to embark on an official visit to Croatia

2016-03-20T13:51:24Z

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Ieva Ilves will tomorrow embark on a three day official visit to Croatia; in addition to the meetings of the Head of State, several bilateral discussions between key ministers of Estonia and Croatia will take place. The President will be accompanied by a representative business delegation.

Ieva Ilves acknowledged the winners of Kodukiri magazine’s home competition

2016-02-26T11:18:17Z

Today, in the Winter Garden of Theatre Estonia, the winners of Kodukiri magazine's home competition, Home of the Year, were presented with their prizes. A building in Tallinn's Nõmme district that dates back to the late Art Nouveau period and has now been transformed into a comfortable home again by Sirje Agan and Uku Liive, following years of being without a proper owner, was declared the winner of the competition.

Ieva Ilves, Patron of SOS Children’s Villages, paid a visit to Põltsamaa Children’s Village

2016-02-19T15:00:41Z

Ieva Ilves, Patron of SOS Children's Villages, today paid a visit to Põltsamaa Children's Village where she met with parents and children of the Children's Village. This was her first visit to an SOS Children's Village.

Ieva Ilves gave ‘Back to School!’ class to Põltsamaa cyber defence and IT students

2016-02-19T13:58:32Z

Ieva Ilves, who is continuing her career as the Head of National Cyber Security Policy of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia, gave a class within the 'Back to School!' week at Põltsamaa Ühisgümnaasium (Põltsamaa Coeducational Gymnasium), where her audience included students of cyber defence and information technology.

Ieva Ilves to become a patron of Estonian SOS Children’s Villages Association

2016-02-03T10:55:08Z

The spouse of the President of the Republic, Ieva Ilves, accepted the proposal to become a patron of the Estonian SOS Children's Villages Association and will shortly visit a children's village.

Wedding of Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Ieva Kupce

2016-01-02T17:16:30Z

The wedding of Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Ieva Kupce was held today in St. Anna’s Church in the town of Halliste, the home church for the Ilves family since the 18^th century, and the legal registration of their marriage entered into force as well. Ieva Kupce changed her last name to Ilves.

The wedding ceremony and marriage registration, witnessed by family members and close friends, was conducted by Marko Tiitus, the Viljandi County provost of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, assisted by the pastor of the Riga St. Gertrude congregation, Krists Kalniņš.

"Over the last half year, I have had by my side an intelligent, charming and happy woman, and we have now decided to join our lives together," said President Ilves.

Ieva Ilves said: "This is a very happy day for us, and we thank everyone who has wished us well."

Ieva (Kupce) Ilves, 38, grew up in the Latvian towns of Limbaži and Salacgriva, graduated from Riga University and attained a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in the US. Her activities in the last two decades have been related to foreign and security policy, NATO, the European Union, Eastern Partnership countries, human rights and democracy. She is currently in charge of the cyber security policy field at the Latvian Ministry of Defence. In this role, she served as one of the key officials leading the preparations for the 2006 NATO Summit in Riga and later worked to bring the NATO Strategic Communication Centre of Excellence to Riga.

Toomas Hendrik and Ieva Ilves do not have children together. Ieva Ilves is the mother of two children – a son, Ralfs Pundurs, age 13; and a daughter, Isabella, who is almost 2. Toomas Hendrik Ilves and his previous spouse are the parents of 12-year-old daughter, Kadri Keiu. Toomas Hendrik Ilves also has a grown son, Luukas Kristjan, and a daughter, Juulia.