Iris Rauskala
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Rauskala speaking in Vienna, 2019
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| Minister of Education | |
| In office 3 June 2019 – 7 January 2020 | |
| Affiliation | Independent |
| Preceded by | Heinz Faßmann |
| Succeeded by | Heinz Faßmann |
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| Born | Iris Eliisa Rauskala (1978-03-14) 14 March 1978 (age 46) Helsinki, Finland |
| Education | University of Innsbruck (Dr.) |
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Iris Eliisa Rauskala (born 14 March 1978 in Helsinki) is a Finnish-born Austrian civil servant and economist who served as Minister of Education, Science and Research in the Bierlein government.[1]
The daughter of a Finnish scientist father and an Austrian civil servant mother, Rauskala was born in Helsinki, where she lived until the age of five.[2]
She studied international economics at the University of Innsbruck and completed a doctorate in 2006.[3] Rauskala then joined the civil service in the Ministry of Economy and later the science ministry, working under ministers Johannes Hahn, Beatrix Karl and Karlheinz Töchterle [de]. She taught at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences from 2011 until she was appointed to a highly ranked position in the education ministry in 2015.[4] She is deputy chairperson of the Austrian Science Fund board of supervisors.[1]
On 3 June 2019 she was sworn in as Minister for Education, Science and Research in the interim government of Brigitte Bierlein. She was described as popular and "extremely dynamic".[4]
In 2018, she married a woman and published that fact in an interview briefly after her inauguration. According to her, there were never any negative reactions.[5]
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