Roberts Zīle
| Roberts Zīle | |
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| Vice-Chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists Latvian Delegation |
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Assumed office 12 June 2014 |
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| Chairman | Syed Kamall |
| Serving alongside |
Hans-Olaf Henkel Raffaele Fitto Helga Stevens Geoffrey Van Orden Ryszard Legutko |
| Member of the European Parliament for Latvia | |
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Assumed office 20 July 2004 |
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| Personal details | |
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20 June 1958 Riga, Soviet Union |
| Political party |
For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK (1993–2011) National Alliance (2011–present) |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | economist |
| Website | www.robertszile.lv |
Dr. Roberts Zīle (born June 20, 1958 in Riga) is a Latvian economist and politician and Member of the European Parliament for the National Alliance, a free market national conservative political party in Latvia. In the seventh term of the European Parliament, he works in the European Conservatives and Reformists group; he is a member of European Conservatives and Reformists Group Executive and a member of the group Bureau. He was formerly vice-president of the now defunct Union for a Europe of Nations group.
Zīle was born in Riga, on June 20, 1958, and gained his first education in the Riga 25th high school. After graduating in 1976, Zīle continued his education at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Economics, culminating in a Baccalaureate degree in Economics in 1981. In 1983, Zīle began part-time studies at the Latvian Institute of Agriculture and Agricultural Economics. During the period between 1992 and 1994, Zīle interned at the Iowa State University in the USA, at the Brandon University in Canada, and at the La Trobe University in Australia. Finally, in 1997 Zīle gained a Doctorate degree of Economics from the Latvian University of Agriculture.
Zīle began his career in 1980 as editor of the publishing house "Avots". From 1982 until 1986 Zīle was a research fellow, later appointed to head of unit, at the Latvian State Institute of Agrarian Economics. From 1989 to 1993, Zīle was editor of the economics section of the Citizens' Congress of the Republic of Latvia newspaper "Citizen" ("Pilsonis") and the LNNK newspaper "National Independence" ("Nacionālā Neatkarība").
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