Livia Klausová (, born 10 November 1943) is a Slovak-born

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economist who was the

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from 2003 to 2013 as wife of the President

Václav Klaus Václav Klaus (; born 19 June 1941) is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993, he served as the second ...

. From 2013 to 2018 she served as the Czech Republic's ambassador to Slovakia. An alumna of the

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, she married fellow economist

in 1968. The couple have two sons,

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(b. 1969) and Jan (b. 1974), and five grandchildren. Her father was Štefan Miština, who died in 1959.

Member of Supervisory Boards

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Biography of Václav Klaus from Radio Praha
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