Iris Rauskala

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Iris Eliisa Rauskala (2019)
Iris Eliisa Rauskala at the swearing-in of President Alexander Van der Bellen (2019)

Iris Eliisa Rauskala (born March 14, 1978 in Helsinki ) is an Austrian economist and top civil servant. From June 3, 2019 to January 7, 2020 she was Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research .

Life

Rauskala, the daughter of a Finnish scientist and an Upper Austrian working in the public sector , grew up in Finland for four and a half years and then in Upper Austria. After graduating from high school in Wels , she studied international economics at the University of Innsbruck and received her doctorate in 2006 with distinction. Following her doctorate, Rauskala completed basic training for the federal service in the Ministry of Economics and Labor. Her thesis was written in 2009 and was devoted to the topic of “results-oriented management”. In Oslo, she completed a training course at the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI). She also took part in the 14th Strategic Leadership Course at the National Defense Academy .

She gained her first professional experience as a research assistant and lecturer at her alma mater and at the European Academy in Bolzano. For a year she worked as a public management consultant at the Institute for Administrative Management in Innsbruck. From August 2007 she was engaged as a speaker at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor . There she worked in the policy department for research and technology policy. From 2009 to July 2011 she was then a consultant for three ÖVP science ministers: Johannes Hahn , Beatrix Karl and Karlheinz Töchterle . From November 2011 to April 2015 she was head of the Public Financial Management department at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences . In 2015 she was appointed head of the section for budget, personnel, internal auditing and science communication by the then Minister of Economics and Science Reinhold Mitterlehner (ÖVP). In addition, she was given responsibility for student funding and counseling in the Ministry of Science. In July 2018, Rauskala was appointed head of the presidential section of the BMBWF.

Since 2015 Iris Rauskala has been the deputy chairwoman of the supervisory board of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research and a member of the supervisory board of the Österreichische Mensen Betriebs-GesmbH .

On June 3, 2019, she was appointed Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research in the Bierlein Federal Government .

In mid-June 2019 , Rauskala came out in the media as openly homosexual in interviews with two Austrian daily newspapers : "I am married to a woman and have never experienced negative reactions here."

Web links

Commons : Iris Eliisa Rauskala  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Neuhauser: Education Minister Rauskala: A touch of Finland for Austria's schools. In: Die Presse , June 4, 2019, accessed June 19, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c Lisa Nimmervoll: Iris Rauskala, head of the Presidential Section, is to become Minister of Education. In: Der Standard , May 31, 2019, accessed on May 31, 2019.
  3. ↑ Lisa Nimmervoll: Minister of Education Rauskala: "Civil servants are not well-protected idlers". Interview in: DerStandard.at , June 14, 2019, accessed on June 19, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Bernadette Bayrhammer, Iris Bonavida: Rauskala: “Not my job to develop into an education expert”. Interview in: Die Presse , June 14, 2019, accessed on June 19, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Rauskala, Iris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rauskala, Iris Eliisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist, top civil servant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki