Iveta Radicova Prime Minister of Slovakia

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Iveta Radicova, PhDr. PhD. (born 7 December 1956) is the current Prime Minister of Slovakia and a member of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union -- Democratic Party. She was sworn into office on July 8, 2010[1] as the head of a four-party center-right coalition government following the 2010 Slovak parliamentary election. She is Slovakia's first female prime minister.
Radičová began her academic career studying sociology at the Comenius University in Bratislava, earning a PhDr. in 1981. Radičová worked as a sociologist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences from 1979-1989, coordinating a research team for family policies. In 1990, she pursued postdoctoral studies for a year at the University of Oxford. Upon her return to Slovakia in 1991, Radičová founded the Center for Analysis of Social Policy, one of Slovakia's first NGOs, and served as its executive director until 2005. During this period, Radičová also lectured in the departments of sociology, political science, and social work at Comenius University. In 2005, she was named a Professor of Sociology by the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University, making her Slovakia's first female professor of sociology.

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