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Revision as of 15:46, 31 October 2019
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.