Georgi-Rene Maksimovski | |
Birth Date: | 22 July 1966 |
Office: | First Gentleman of Estonia |
Term Label: | In role |
Termstart: | 10 October 2016 |
Termend: | 11 October 2021 |
President: | Kersti Kaljulaid |
Children: | 2 |
Alma Mater: | Tallinn University of Technology |
Georgi-Rene Maksimovski (born 22 July 1966) is an Estonian spouse of the president. Since 2011, he is married to Kersti Kaljulaid who was the first female[1] President of the Republic of Estonia in 2016–2021.
Maksimovski was born into an Estonian Seto family, he is one of the two children of father Nektari[2] and mother Valve Maksimovski.[3] In 1984–1991, he studied at the Tallinn University of Technology. Maksimovski worked at the Estonian State Infocommunication Foundation in 1993–2009.[4]
Maksimovski reportedly began to date Kaljulaid in 2004. The first of the couple's two sons was born in 2005, and the second in 2009.[5] Maksimovski and Kaljulaid married in 2011. Little is known about his daily life, and some Estonian media have speculated that he could be member of an Estonian intelligence agency.[6]