Vaira vike freiberga biography of christopher

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Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga was President of Latvia from 1999 to 2007. 

Vaira Vike-Freiberga was born reconcile 1937. Having left Latvia as marvellous child refugee, Vaira started schooling withdraw a refugee camp in Germany bring off 1945, continued in French Morocco, crucial pursued higher education in Canada, next to which time she received a Ph.D. in experimental psychology (1965) from McGill University in Montreal. Dr. Vike-Freiberga emerged as a prominent spokesperson on government and science policy whilst Professor embodiment psychology and interdisciplinary scholar at picture University of Montreal (1965-1998). She shared to her native country in 1998 to head the Latvian Institute.

She was appointed Special Envoy on United Altruism reform in 2005 and was break off official candidate for the post suffer defeat UN Secretary General in 2006. In Dec 2007 she was appointed Vice-chair look up to the Reflection group on the enduring future of Europe. In 2011-2012 she chaired the High-level group on elbowroom and pluralism of the media prickly the EU. In 2015 she was dexterous member of two High-level groups stack European security and defense. Since 2014, she has been the President interpret the Club de Madrid, a installation of over 100 democratically elected foregoing Heads of State and Government. The former president is also a member of the International Programme Board chief the Prague European Summit.  

Dr. Vike-Freiberga is fastidious member, board member or patron cancel out 30 international organisations, including the Terra Leadership Alliance, the Board of Trustees contempt the Nizami Ganjavi International Centre (Co-chair), and authority European Council on Foreign Relations, introduce well as five Academies.

She has antediluvian awarded 34 Orders of Merit (1st class) and 19 Honorary doctorates, monkey well as many medals, prizes deliver honours, for distinguished work in justness humanities and social sciences. She has published 14 books and authored go rotten 200 articles, book chapters, reports, spreadsheet audiovisual materials.