Iris Rauskala
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Iris Eliisa Rauskala (born 14 March 1978) is an Austrian civil servant and economist serving as Minister of Education, Science and Research in the Bierlein government.[1]
Life
The daughter of a Finnish scientist and an Austrian civil servant was born in Helsinki where she lived until the age of five. She is married and openly homosexual.[2]
She studied international economics at the University of Innsbruck and completed a doctorate in 2006.[3] Rauskala then joined the civil service in the Ministry of Economy and later the science ministry, working under ministers Johannes Hahn, Beatrix Karl and Karlheinz Töchterle. She taught at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences from 2011 until she was appointed to a highly ranked position in the education ministry in 2015.[4] She is deputy chairperson of the Austrian Science Fund board of supervisors.[1]
On 3 June 2019 she was sworn in as Minister for Education, Science and Research in the interim government of Brigitte Bierlein. She was described as popular and "extremely dynamic".[4]
External links
- "Mag. Dr. Iris Rauskala". parlament.gv.at. Austrian Parliament.
References
- ^ a b "Rauskala, Iris Eliisa". austria-forum.org (in German). Retrieved 30 October 2019.
- ^ Nimmervoll, Lisa (14 June 2019). "Bildungsministerin Rauskala: "Beamte sind keine gut abgesicherten Nichtstuer"". Der Standard (in German). Retrieved 30 October 2019.
- ^ "Meet Austria's Minister of Education Iris Eliisa Rauskala". vindobona.org. 6 August 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
- ^ a b Nimmervoll, Lisa (31 May 2019). "Präsidialsektionschefin Iris Rauskala soll Bildungsministerin werden". Der Standard (in German). Retrieved 30 October 2019.
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