Ivan Mikloš

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Ivan Mikloš

Ivan Mikloš (born June 2, 1960 in Svidník ) is a Slovak politician ( SDKÚ ). He was Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia from 2002 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2012 .

Characteristic

Ivan Mikloš is an economically liberal politician who advocates higher economic growth and against redistribution . His role model is Friedrich August von Hayek , whose works he had read during the communist era.

Mikloš attracted international attention in 2004 when the country introduced the single tax. When the single tax was introduced, the western media sometimes referred to him as “Mister 19 Percent”. He is the author of part of the Slovak tax and social reforms and recipient of the 2005 Hayek Medal .

Life

From 1979 to 1983 he studied at the Business School (today Business University) in Bratislava at the Faculty of Economics and specialized in long-term economic planning and economic forecasting. From 1983 to 1990 he was first assistant, then lecturer at the Business School in Bratislava. After briefly advising the Deputy Prime Minister and then Director of the Economic and Social Policy Department of the Slovak Government in 1990 and 1991, at the age of 31 he became Minister of Administration and Privatization in the government of Christian Democrat Ján Čarnogurský from April 1991 to June 1992 the first wave of privatization .

From 1992 to 1998, when the Christian Democrats were in opposition, he founded and directed the influential think tank MESA 10, which produces economic analyzes. In 1993 he attended the London School of Economics . He was also a lecturer at Trnava University . He can refer to a number of economic and financial publications. In the first reform government of Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda (1998–2002) some key positions were filled with MESA people. From 1998 to 2006 Mikloš was Deputy Prime Minister, from 1998 to 2002 Minister of Economic Affairs ( Dzurinda I government ), briefly also Minister of Transport, Post and Telecommunications and from 2002 to 2006 ( Dzurinda II government ) Minister of Finance. Since July 8, 2010 he has been Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister in the Radičová government again.

Politically he belonged 1992/1993 to the short-lived Democratic Citizens Union (ODÚ), from 1993 to 2000 the Democratic Party and in 2001 he joined the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) of Prime Minister Dzurinda. Mikloš is married and has two children. In addition to his mother tongue, he speaks good English, Russian and Czech.

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