Ivan Mikloš

Minister Ivan Miklos ( born June 2, 1960 in Svidník ) is a Slovak politician ( SDKU ). He was from 2002 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2012 Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia.

Characteristics

Minister Ivan Miklos is an economic liberal politician who advocates greater economic growth and against redistribution. His model is Friedrich August von Hayek, whose works he had read in the communist period.

For international attention Miklos made ​​in 2004, when the country introduced the flat tax. With the introduction of the single tax, he was sometimes referred to by the Western media as "Mr. 19 Percent ". He is the author of part of the Slovak tax and social reforms, and recipient of the Hayek Medal 2005.

Life

From 1979 to 1983 he studied at the Higher School of Economics (now the University of Economics ) in Bratislava at the Department of Economics, specializing in long-term economic planning and Wirtschaftsprognostik. From 1983 to 1990 he was first assistant, then a lecturer at the University of Economics in Bratislava. After he was briefly in 1990 and 1991 Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister and then Director of the Department for Economic and Social Policy of the Slovak government, he was with 31 years in the government of Christian Democrats Ján Čarnogurský from April 1991 to June 1992 Minister for Administration and Privatization and operationally the first wave of privatization.

In the period 1992-1998, in which the Christian Democrats were in opposition, he founded and led the influential think tank MESA 10, created the economic analysis. In 1993, he attended the London School of Economics. In addition, he was a lecturer at the University of Trnava. It can refer to a number of economic and financial scientific publications. In the first reform government of Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda (1998-2002) some key positions were filled by Mesa people. From 1998 to 2006, Miklos was Deputy Prime Minister, from 1998 to 2002 Minister of Economic Affairs ( Government Dzurinda I), short time, Minister of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications from 2002 to 2006 ( Dzurinda government II ) Minister of Finance. Since 8 July 2010, he is in the government Radicova again Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister.

Politically, he was a 1992/1993 the short-lived Democratic Civic Union ( ODU ) of from 1993 to 2000, the Democratic Party and in 2001 was the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union ( SDKU ) of Prime Minister Dzurinda at. Miklos is married and has two children, he speaks his native language, good English, Russian and Czech.