Arno Almann has been working at EBS since 1997. In 2000, he was elected Head of the Law and Public Administration Chair and a full professor. He worked in the position of professor until August 2024. He has supervised numerous Bachelor’s and Master’s theses and several doctoral dissertations. As a professor, he laid the foundation for the systematic teaching of law subjects at EBS, and the subjects he taught included Law Encyclopaedia, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Business Law, Public Administration, Local Government and Management of Public Organisations and their Legal Framework. Professor Almann was also elected as the EBS Rector.
Arno Almann graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tartu in 1974. He defended his doctoral dissertation (Theoretical Foundations and Legal Arrangement of Local Government in Estonia) at Tallinn University of Technology in 1999. He has been awarded a PhD in social sciences. Almann has previously worked in leading positions both in the public and private sector and in research facilities and as an international expert of the European Union, World Bank and UNDP in Central and Eastern European and Central Asian states to consult on reforms in the public sector and local municipalities. He has also contributed to the development of legislation which ensured the restoration of Estonia’s national independence and served as input for the establishment of a legal system for the newly independent state. He is a co-author of the annotated editions of the Constitution of the Republic of Estonia. From 2003 to 2006, he led the Legal Experts Group of the President of the Republic and was a member of the President's Academic Advisory Council. During the same period, he was also appointed as a member of the Higher Education Quality Agency's Evaluation Council.
In 2006, he was awarded the Order of the National Coat of Arms, Class II, for his contributions to the restoration and strengthening of the independence of the Republic of Estonia from 1988 to 2006. In 2012, he received the B.G. Forselius Medal, and in 2017, he was named an honorary doctor of Ternopil National Economic University (Ukraine).
In 2021, the Supervisory Board of SA Estonian Business School granted him the status of Rector Emeritus. He continues to represent the university and participate in its development activities in this capacity.
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