Dalia Grybauskaitė

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Dalia Grybauskaitė
President of Lithuania
In office
12 July 2009 – 12 July 2019
Prime MinisterAndrius Kubilius
Algirdas Butkevičius
Preceded byValdas Adamkus
Succeeded byGitanas Nausėda
European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget
In office
22 November 2004 – 1 July 2009
PresidentJosé Manuel Barroso
Preceded byMichaele Schreyer
Markos Kyprianou (Budget)
Succeeded byAlgirdas Šemeta
European Commissioner for Education and Culture
In office
1 May 2004 – 11 November 2004
Served with Viviane Reding
PresidentRomano Prodi
Preceded byViviane Reding
Succeeded byJán Figeľ (Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism)
Personal details
Born (1956-03-01) 1 March 1956 (age 68)
Vilnius, Soviet Union
(now Lithuania)
Alma materZhdanov University
Georgetown University
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Dalia Grybauskaitė (born 1 March 1956) is a Lithuanian politician. She became the President of Lithuania on 12 July 2009. She was re-elected in May 2014. She is the country's first female President and the first to be elected for a second term.[1][2]

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".

References[change | change source]

  1. "Lithuania's first female president sworn in for second term". EuroNews. 12 July 2014. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  2. Skard, Torild (2014) "Kazimiera Prunskiene and Dalia Grybauskaite" in Women of power - half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide, Bristol: Policy Press, ISBN 978-1-44731-578-0, pp. 335-40

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