Inese Vaidere (born 3 September 1952) is a Latvian politician and a Member of the European Parliament.She was Minister of State for the Environment in the Krištopans cabinet from 1998-1999, Vice-Mayor of Riga from 2001-2002 and a member of the Saeima from 2002-2004. She was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 from the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK list and sat with the Union for a Europe of Nations group.