Dalia Grybauskaitė Politician

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 to be elected for a second 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".

Personal facts

Birth date	March 01, 1956
Birth place	Soviet Union , Vilnius
Religion	Catholic Church
Education	Saint Petersburg State University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

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Office holder

office	European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget President of Lithuania European Commissioner for Education and Culture
president	Romano Prodi José Manuel Barroso
prime minister	Andrius Kubilius Algirdas Butkevičius
successor	Algirdas Šemeta Ján Figeľ