Valdis Dombrovskis is Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for an Economy that Works for People and Commissioner for Trade.
Previously, he was Vice-President of the European Commission for the Euro and Social Dialogue from 2014 to 2019, and was also in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union from 2016 to 2019. Before joining the Commission, Dombrovskis was an MP and MEP and served three consecutive terms as Prime Minister of Latvia (2009-2014), making him the country’s longest-serving elected head of government. Earlier in his career, he also served as a senior economist and Chief Economist at the Bank of Latvia (1998-2002) and as Latvia’s Minister of Finance (2002-2004).
Born in 1971, Dombrovskis graduated with a degree in physics from the University of Latvia (1993) and economics from Riga University of Technology (1995). He received his master’s degree in physics in 1995 from the University of Latvia.
