Klára Dobrev

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Klára Dobrev to chair a session of the European Parliament as Deputy Speaker (2019)

Klára Dobrev (born February 2, 1972 in Sofia , Bulgaria ) is a Hungarian economist and politician ( DK ). In the 2019 European elections she was elected as a member of the European Parliament . She is married to the former Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány .

Life

Youth and education

Klára Dobrev was born in 1972 as the daughter of the Hungarian Piroska Apró and the Bulgarian Petar Dobrev in Sofia and grew up in Hungary and Bulgaria. She studied at the University of Economics (today Corvinus University ) and the Faculty of Politics and Law of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest . She later did a PhD in financial law .

Professional career

After completing her studies, Dobrev was employed, among other things, in the office of the later minister without portfolio Etele Baráth and as the office manager of the later finance minister Tibor Draskovics (both MSZP ). At the same time she worked as a legal advisor at the company Altus Investments of her future husband Ferenc Gyurcsány. From 1995 to 2000 she held a leading position in the Hungarian Ministry of Finance. Before the parliamentary elections in 2002, she was chief of staff in the successful election campaign of the socialists for Péter Medgyessy . Under the new government, she became deputy head of the National Development Agency ( Nemzeti Fejlesztési Hivatal ), which also included EU subsidies .

When Gyurcsány became Prime Minister after Medgyessy's resignation in September 2004, Klára Dobrev resigned from her posts and henceforth headed the “Foundation for Healthy Communities” ( Alapítvány az Egészséges Településekért ) and the Hungarian section of UN Women . In 2009 she became Managing Director of Altus Investments . Dobrev was part of the BBC series 100 Women in 2013 .

Entry into the European Parliament

Dobrev together with Giorgi Tsereteli , President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

For the European elections in Hungary in 2019 , Dobrev stood for the first time for a political election as the top candidate of the Democrats Koalíció (DK), which Gyurcsány had founded eight years earlier. In the election campaign she advocated the concept of the United States of Europe . The DK received about 16% of the vote, so that Dobrev entered the European Parliament. She joined the group of the Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats (S&D), which she nominated for one of the 14 deputy offices of the President of Parliament and won the vote. In addition to her role as Deputy Speaker of Parliament, she is also a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and a deputy member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs .

Personal

Dobrev has been married to Ferenc Gyurcsány since 1994 , who was Prime Minister of Hungary from 2004 to 2009 . The couple have three children together.

Her maternal grandfather, Antal Apró , was a leading communist politician during the Kádár era . Her mother, who is also an economist, was working in the Hungarian commercial agency in Sofia when Klára Dobrev was born, and from 1988 she was Hungarian Deputy Minister of Finance.

Dobrev is fluent in German .

Web links

Commons : Klára Dobrev  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ András Kósa: Dobrev Klára: Gyurcsány már nem szeretne miniszterelnök lenni. HVG, September 16, 2014, accessed on June 9, 2019
  2. ^ András Lindner and Zoltán Horváth: Interview with Klára Dobrev. HVG, September 1, 2005, accessed on June 9, 2019
  3. ^ Dobrev Klára lesz az Altus vezérigazgatója. Origo, October 1, 2009, accessed June 9, 2019
  4. ↑ 100 Women: Who took part? BBC, November 22, 2013, accessed June 9, 2019
  5. ↑ Dora Diseri: How Hungary's Prime Minister is campaigning for the EU. Der Tagesspiegel , April 27, 2019, accessed on June 9, 2019
  6. ↑ Home | Klára DOBREV | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Megszületett Gyurcsány Ferenc kisfia. Origo, February 19, 2015, accessed June 9, 2019
  8. ↑ Klára Dobrev is to move into the European Parliament for the DK. Budapost (press review), February 28, 2019, accessed on June 9, 2019
  9. ^ Péter Magyari: Több mint anyós I. Index.hu, October 10, 2007, accessed on June 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Dobrev, Klára
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Sofia , Bulgaria