Andres Pung has worked at the Ministry of Education and Research in Estonia since 2003. He is the Head of Vocational and Adult Education Department. Earlier he worked in the higher educational sector and acted as the Vice Rector in the studies and research at the Estonian Music Academy.His main responsibility is developing the vocational education and adult education policy  and coordinating its implementation in Estonia. He has coordinated the preparation of two strategies for developing  VET as well as adult education in Estonia in 2005 and in 2009. Andres Pung has graduated from the Tallinn Conservatoire in the speciality of music theory and took his postgraduate training at the  St. Petersburg Conservatoire.