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Mario Monti

Aug 6, 2020

Mario Monti is a former Prime Minister of Italy. He served from 2011 to 2013.  Born in Varese, Italy, in 1943, he graduated from Bocconi University and pursued graduate studies at Yale University. He was professor of Economics at the University of Trento, at the...

Ivo Josipovic

Jul 24, 2020

Born in Zagreb in 1957, Ivo Josipović earned degrees from the University of Zagreb in Law and Music, later becoming a prominent university professor, composer, and public servant. Before assuming the presidency, Josipović served as a Member of Parliament and held...

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...