Martine Reicherts (born 1957) was a Luxembourg

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and served as the European Union's Director-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture until her retirement in 2018, when she was replaced by Themis Christophidou. She had previously held the post of Director-General of the Office for Official Publications of the European Union. She was born on 13 April 1957 in

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, Luxembourg, and educated at the

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. She studied at the

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and University "Paris II" and has a Master of Laws and a D.E.A. in Business Law. After practising as a lawyer at the bar in Luxembourg from 1980 to 1984 she worked at the

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from 1984 until her retirement in 2018. From 1988 to 1991 she taught taxation at the

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. She served as a

in the

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, with a portfolio of Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship.

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