Vjačeslavs Dombrovskis (russian: Вячесла́в Домбро́вский; born 27 December 1977 in Riga) is a Latvian Russian politician and

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, who has previously served as the Minister for Education and Science and as Minister of Economics of Latvia. Dombrovskis has a bachelor's degree from the

University of Latvia University of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Universitāte, shortened ''LU'') is a state-run university located in Riga, Latvia established in 1919. The ''QS World University Rankings'' places the university between 801st and 1000th globally, seventh ...

in economics and finance and a doctor's degree from

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in economics. He also attended George Mason University as Visiting Fulbright Scholar. Dombrovskis gained Latvian citizenship through naturalization in 1997.

Science career

Vjačeslavs Dombrovskis started his career as a Visiting Researcher in the Center for European Economic Research ZEW in Germany. In 2003 he joined The Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies as a Research Fellow and served there almost nine years. From 2003 he also became a member of the Board of Soros Foundation Latvia. Since 2003 he was assistant professor at Stockholm School of Economics in Riga until 2011. In 2015 he founded CERTUS Think Tank, where he was a chairman of the Board till 2018.

Political career

Dombrovskis entered politics in 2011, when he joined the newly founded

Zatlers' Reform Party The Reform Party ( lv, Reformu partija), until April 2012 known as Zatlers' Reform Party ( lv, Zatlera Reformu partija, links=no, ZRP), was a centre-right political party in Latvia founded by former President Valdis Zatlers on 23 July 2011. It wo ...

and was elected as a member of the Latvian parliament. For the following two years he was the leader of the Zatlers' Reform Party parliamentary fraction. Dombrovskis was appointed Minister for Education and Science of Latvia in May 2013, after the resignation of previous Minister Roberts Ķīlis. He vowed to continue to focus on the five education and science priorities set by his predecessor. He joined the Harmony party in 2018 and was nominated by

Nils Ušakovs Nils Ušakovs (russian: Нил Валерьевич Ушаков, ''Nil Valeryevich Ushakov'') (born 8 June 1976) is a Latvian Russian politician, former mayor of Riga and former journalist. He has been the board chairman of the left-wing part ...

and Jānis Urbanovičs to be the Harmony party's Prime Ministerial candidate at the 2018 parliamentary elections. In September 2020, Dombrovskis was excluded from ''Harmony''. In January 2021, Dombrovskis announced that he planned to found a new party in the first half of 2021.

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1977 births Living people Politicians from Riga Latvian people of Russian descent Reform Party (Latvia) politicians Social Democratic Party "Harmony" politicians Ministers of Education and Science of Latvia Deputies of the 11th Saeima Deputies of the 12th Saeima Deputies of the 13th Saeima Latvian economists University of Latvia alumni Clark University alumni Stockholm School of Economics faculty {{Latvia-politician-stub