Taavi Aas

Taavi Aas is a former mayor of Tallinn, heading the city between November 2017 and April 2019.

He was born in 1966. He completed his secondary and tertiary education in Tallinn. Until 2005, Taavi Aas was the financial director of a commerce association. That same year he was elected deputy mayor of Tallinn for urban planning and transport.

Before becoming elected mayor of Tallinn, he served as acting mayor in the period 2015-2017, having stepped in to fill in the position of the previous mayor Edgar Savisaar, who was under a bribery investigation.

During his term, in May 2017 he opened the fully renovated Kalevi Sports Hall. His administration also focused on creating an economic environment to foster business and attracts new investment to modernize economic structures in the Estonian capital.