Iveta Radičová
| Iveta Radičová | |
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| Prime Minister of Slovakia | |
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In office 8 July 2010 – 4 April 2012 |
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| President | Ivan Gašparovič |
| Preceded by | Robert Fico |
| Succeeded by | Robert Fico |
| Minister of Defence | |
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In office 28 November 2011 – 4 April 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Ľubomír Galko |
| Succeeded by | Martin Glváč |
| Minister of Labour | |
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In office 17 October 2005 – 4 July 2006 |
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| Prime Minister | Mikuláš Dzurinda |
| Preceded by | Ľudovít Kaník |
| Succeeded by | Viera Tomanová |
| Member of the National Council | |
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In office 4 July 2006 – 23 April 2009 |
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| Personal details | |
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7 December 1956 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
| Political party | Slovak Democratic and Christian Union-Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Stano Radič (Deceased 2005) |
| Alma mater |
Comenius University Slovak Academy of Sciences |
Iveta Radičová (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈiʋeta ˈraɟitʃoʋaː]; born 7 December 1956) was the first woman Prime Minister of Slovakia from 2010 to 2012. She led a coalition government, in which she also briefly held the post of Minister of Defence in the last five months of the coalition. Previously, she served as Minister of Labour from 2005 to 2006 in the second Dzurinda government.
In the 2009 presidential election Iveta Radičová unsuccessfully ran for the office of President of Slovakia. As of March 2012[update], she stated that she is retired from politics.
Radičová was born in Bratislava on 7 December 1956. She has one daughter and is the widow of Stano Radič, a famous Slovak comedian and actor who died in 2005. In addition to her native Slovak, Radičová speaks Russian fluently and has good knowledge of English, German and Polish.
Radičová began her academic career studying sociology at the Comenius University in Bratislava, earning a PhD at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 1981. Radičová worked as a sociologist at the Academy from 1979–1989, coordinating a research team for family policies. In 1990, she pursued postdoctoral studies for a year at the University of Oxford. Upon her return to Slovakia in 1991, Radičová founded the Center for Analysis of Social Policy, one of Slovakia's first NGOs, and served as its executive director until 2005. During this period, Radičová also lectured in the departments of sociology, political science, and social work at Comenius University. In 2005, she was named a Professor of Sociology by the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University, making her Slovakia's first female professor of sociology. In Spring 2013, she returned to the Oxford, as a Visiting Fellow.
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