# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lolita-cigane
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:48:30.119Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lolita-cigane"
name: "Lolita Čigāne"
slug: "lolita-cigane"
description: "Lolita Čigāne is an international consultant and policy analyst in elections, good governance, parliamentarianism and anti-corruption, previously a journalist, anti-corruption activist and advocate and a member of parliament. She was first elected to the 10th Saeima (parliament) in 2010. She served a full term as a Member of Parliament in the 11th Saeima (2011–2014), was the parliamentary secretary of the Ministry of Finance in 2013-2014 and a member of 12th Saeima, serving also as the chair of the European Affairs Committee until November 2018. She was the chairperson of the Board of Transparency International Latvia in 2008-2010. Currently she works with organizations such as OSCE, European Commission, NDI, UNDP and others, as well as a visiting lecturer at Stockholm School of Economics in Riga teaching political economy courses. In 2020 - 2023, she worked with OSCE in the leadership of election missions to Croatia, Mongolia, Germany, France, Italy and others. Lolita Cigane is also the author of the book \"A woman in power. What politics taught me about the life and myself. Political notes in drawings\" published in 2023, that reflects on her experiences from the time in politics."
tagline: "Latvian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flickr_-_Saeima_-_10.Saeimas_deput%C4%81te_Lolita_%C4%8Cig%C4%81ne.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1973-08-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           34.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.401944
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/lolita_cigane"
    handle:    "lolita_cigane"
sources:
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    title: "لوليتا سيجان"
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    title: "Lolita Čigāne"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump