Valdis Dombrovskis
| Valdis Dombrovskis | |
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| European Commissioner for the Euro, Social Dialogue, Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union | |
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Assumed office 16 July 2016 |
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| President | Jean-Claude Juncker |
| Preceded by | Jonathan Hill |
| Prime Minister of Latvia | |
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In office 12 March 2009 – 22 January 2014 |
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| President |
Valdis Zatlers Andris Bērziņš |
| Preceded by | Ivars Godmanis |
| Succeeded by | Laimdota Straujuma |
| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 7 November 2002 – 9 March 2004 |
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| Prime Minister | Einars Repše |
| Preceded by | Gundars Bērziņš |
| Succeeded by | Oskars Spurdziņš |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
5 August 1971 Riga, Latvia |
| Political party |
New Era Party (2002–2011) Unity (2011–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Ārija Dombrovska |
| Alma mater |
University of Latvia Riga Technical University University of Maryland, College Park |
Valdis Dombrovskis (born 5 August 1971) is a Latvian politician and the current European Commissioner for the Euro and Social Dialogue as well as a Vice-President of the European Commission, serving since November 2014. He served as Prime Minister of Latvia from 2009 until 2014, when he resigned. He served as Minister of Finance from 2002 to 2004 and was a Member of the European Parliament for the New Era Party. Following the resignation of Jonathan Hill, it was announced that Dombrovskis will take over the portfolio for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union from 16 July 2016.
Born in Riga to a family with Polish roots (the original Polish surname is Dąbrowski), Dombrovskis earned a bachelor's degree in economics for engineers from Riga Technical University in 1995 and a master's degree in physics from the University of Latvia in 1996. He worked as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Physics of the University of Mainz in Mainz, Germany, from 1995 to 1996, as an assistant at the University of Latvia's Institute of Solid-State Physics in 1997, and as a PhD student at the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park for electrical engineering in 1998.
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