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Dalia Grybauskaitė ((:d̪ɐˈlʲɛ ɡʲrʲiːbɐʊsˈkɐ̂ˑɪt̪ʲeː), born 1 March 1956) is the President of Lithuania, inaugurated on 12 July 2009 and re-elected in May 2014. She is the country's first female President and the first to be elected for a second term.〔Skard, Torild (2014) "Kazimiera Prunskiene and Dalia Grybauskaite" in ''Women of power – half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide'', Bristol: Policy Press, ISBN 978-1-44731-578-0, pp. 335–40〕 She was Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Finance, also European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget from 2004 to 2009. She is often referred to as the "Iron Lady" or the "Steel Magnolia". ==Early years== Grybauskaitė was born on 1 March 1956 in a working-class family in Vilnius. Her mother, Vitalija Korsakaitė (1922–1989), was born in the Biržai region and worked as a saleswoman; her father, Polikarpas Grybauskas (1928–2008) an electrician and driver. Grybauskaitė attended Salomėja Nėris High School. She has described herself as not among the best of students, receiving mostly fours in a system where five was the highest grade. Her favourite subjects were history, geography and physics. Grybauskaitė began participating in sport at the age of eleven, and became a passionate basketball player.〔 At the age of nineteen, she worked for a year at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society as a staff inspector. She then enrolled in Saint Petersburg State University, then known as Leningrad State University named after Zhdanov, as a student of political economy. At the same time, she began working in a local factory in Saint-Petersburg. In 1983, Grybauskaitė graduated with a citation and returned to Vilnius, taking a secretarial position at the Academy of Sciences. Work in the Academy was scarce, however, and she moved to the Vilnius Communist Party High School, where she lectured in political economy and global finance.〔 From 1983 to December 1989, she was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and after the Communist Party of Lithuania broke away from the CPSU in December 1989, she was member of the CPL until June 1990. In 1988, she defended her PhD thesis at Moscow (Academy of Social Sciences). In 1990, soon after Lithuania re-established its independence from the Soviet Union, Grybauskaitė continued her studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington DC, in the Special Programme for senior executives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=European Commission )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dalia Grybauskaitė」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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