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Ivo Josipovic

Jul 24, 2020

Ivo Josipović is a former President of the Republic of Croatia (2010-2015). Born in Zagreb, 1957 Mr Josipovic graduated from the University of Zagreb, where he studied Law and Music at the Faculty of Law and the Music Academy, respectively. Before his presidential...

Dalia Grybauskaite

Jul 17, 2020

Dalia Grybauskaitė is the former President of the Republic of Lithuania. She served as President from 2009 to 2019. She was the country’s first woman President and the only President in Lithuania’s post-Soviet history to have served two consecutive terms.  Born in...

Jan Peter Balkenende

Feb 3, 2020

Jan Peter Balkenende is a former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (2002 to 2010).  Mr Balkenende studied Economic and Social History (MA) and Law (LLM) and obtained a PhD in Law. He worked at the Netherlands’ Universities Council, the Research...

Mariano Rajoy

Nov 21, 2019

Mariano Rajoy is a former President of Spain (2011 to 2018). Rajoy studied Law at the University of Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, where he graduated in 1978.  He began his political career by joining the People’s Alliance (AP), the predecessor of the...

Helen Clark

Oct 20, 2019

Helen Clark is a former Prime Minister of New Zealand (1999 – 2008). She was the first woman to become Prime Minister following a General Election and the second to serve from that office. Born in Te Pahu, New Zealand on 26 February 1950, Ms Clark holds an MA in...