Mariann Rikka is the chief expert in the General Education Department of the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research, where she works on human rights and human rights education, among other things. She previously worked as a legal adviser at the Citizenship and Migration Policy Department of the Ministry of the Interior, and was a history and civic education teacher through the Noored kooli programme. She is especially interested in the application of history and the politics of memory in shaping the identity and politics of a state as well as developments in this field and the human rights situation in modern Russia. Her articles have been published in Diplomaatia before.
