Dalia Grybauskaitė
| Dalia Grybauskaitė | |
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| President of Lithuania | |
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Assumed office 12 July 2009 |
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| Prime Minister |
Andrius Kubilius Algirdas Butkevičius Saulius Skvernelis |
| Preceded by | Valdas Adamkus |
| European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget | |
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In office 22 November 2004 – 1 July 2009 |
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| President | José Manuel Barroso |
| Preceded by | (Budget) |
| Succeeded by | Algirdas Šemeta |
| European Commissioner for Education and Culture | |
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In office 1 May 2004 – 11 November 2004 Served with Viviane Reding |
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| President | Romano Prodi |
| Preceded by | Viviane Reding |
| Succeeded by | Ján Figeľ (Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism) |
| Personal details | |
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1 March 1956 Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party |
Communist Party (Before 1990) Independent (1990–present) |
| Alma mater |
Saint Petersburg State University Georgetown University |
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Dalia Grybauskaitė (Lithuanian pronunciation: [d̪ɐˈlʲɛ ɡʲrʲiːbɐʊsˈkɐ̂ˑɪt̪ʲeː], born 1 March 1956) is the President of Lithuania, inaugurated on 12 July 2009 and re-elected in May 2014. She is the country's first female President and the first President of Lithuania to be reelected for a second consecutive term.
She was Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Finance, also European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget from 2004 to 2009. She is often referred to as the "Iron Lady" or the "Steel Magnolia".
Grybauskaitė was born on 1 March 1956 in a working-class family in Vilnius. Her mother, Vitalija Korsakaitė (1922–1989), was born in the Biržai region and worked as a saleswoman; her father, Polikarpas Grybauskas (1928–2008), was an electrician and driver. Grybauskaitė attended Salomėja Nėris High School. She has described herself as not among the best of students, receiving mostly fours in a system where five was the highest grade. Her favourite subjects were history, geography and physics.
Grybauskaitė began participating in sport at the age of eleven, and became a passionate basketball player. At the age of nineteen, she worked for a year at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society as a staff inspector. She then enrolled in Saint Petersburg State University, then known as Leningrad A.A. Zhdanov State University, as a student of political economy. At the same time, she began working in a local factory in Saint Petersburg. In 1983, Grybauskaitė graduated with a citation and returned to Vilnius, taking a secretarial position at the Academy of Sciences. Work in the Academy was scarce, however, and she moved to the Vilnius Communist Party High School, where she lectured in political economy and global finance. From 1983 to December 1989, she was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and after the Communist Party of Lithuania broke away from the CPSU in December 1989, she was member of the CPL until June 1990. In 1988, she defended her PhD thesis at Moscow (Academy of Social Sciences).
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