Dalia GrybauskaitÄ—
Dalia Grybauskaite [ dal ʲ æ gr ʲ i ː ʲ e ː bauskait ] ( born March 1, 1956 in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Lithuanian politician. She served as Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget of the European Union until May 2009. In the elections on 17 May 2009 she was elected as the first woman in the office of the Lithuanian President. She entered her five -year term on July 12, 2009, in succession to Valdas Adamkus.
Education and work
The daughter of an electrician and a saleswoman graduated from the Salomeja - Neris Middle School in the old town of Vilnius.
Dalia Grybauskaite worked at least one year in the " Executive Department " (such as: human resources department ) of the Lithuanian National Philharmonic, before she went in 1976 as a worker and a laboratory assistant at the fur factory Red Front to Leningrad ( now St. Petersburg). With the completion in Political Economy ( Economics) in evening studies at the State University of Leningrad in 1983, she joined the CPSU in, returned to Lithuania and became head of the Cabinet of Agriculture at the Party School of Vilnius. She taught there until 1990 economics. Parallel she could earn her PhD in 1988 in economics from the University of Moscow. With the social upheaval in Lithuania, she was appointed as assistant at the Institute of Economics in 1991 with the drafting of the economic program of the government. In the same year, she completed a special program for members of government at Georgetown University in Washington, DC
Political career in independent Lithuania
After entering the conservative Lithuanian government in 1991, she was soon Head of Department at Ministry of Foreign Trade, in 1993, then at the Foreign Ministry. She was the chief negotiator for the FTA with the EU and was 1994-1995 at the Lithuanian Mission to the EU. After the change of government, it was 1996 ( and 1999 ) are added to the Lithuanian Embassy in the United States until Deputy Minister of Finance (1999) and Deputy Foreign Minister ( 2000), after the re- election of the Conservative-Liberal parties. After the end of bourgeois coalition went to her political rise further: in the new social democratic government dominated by Algirdas Brazauskas, she was Minister of Finance in 2001 (up to her appointment as Commissioner on May 4, 2004).
EU Commissioner
From 1 May 2004, she served with the Luxembourger Viviane Reding, the Office of Education and Culture Commissioner. In the Barroso Commission I, which was from November 2004 to February 2010 in the office, she was responsible for finance and budget. This office, however, she gave up after her election as President of the Lithuanian State. Her successor was the former Lithuanian Finance Minister Algirdas Šemeta.
Lithuanian President
In February 2009, Dalia Grybauskaite declared her candidacy for the office of President of the Republic of Lithuania. This candidacy was universally expected and advocated by many pages of Lithuanian society. Despite a decline in the polls just before the election they won the vote by a large margin for himself and was elected with 68.2 % of the vote for the successor of Valdas Adamkus in the office of the president in the first round of voting on 17 May 2009. On 12 July 2009 she was solemnly introduced into their office.
Private life and language skills
Dalia Grybauskaite, who has a black belt in the martial art of karate is single and childless.
Besides Lithuanian speaks English, Russian, French and Polish.
Prices
- International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen, 2013
Honors
- EU " Commissioner of the Year ", 2005
- Honorary Doctor, Georgetown University, 2013
Awards
- Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, 2003
- Order of St. Charles ( Grand Officer ), 2012
- Collar of the Order of St. Mary's Cross Country - 2013
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