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Feb 08, 1931 Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia 93 years old
Slovakian economist and politician
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About Emília Kováčová
- Emília Kovácová (born February 8, 1931) is a Slovak economist and professor of employment and social development at the University of Economics in Bratislava.
- She served as the country's first First Lady of Slovakia from 1993 until 1998.Kovácová's husband, Michal Kovác, became the first President of Slovakia upon the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993.
- Emília Kovácová, likewise, became the first First Lady in Slovakia's history.
- Kovácová created and established the protocols for the new office of the First Lady.
- She also oversaw the restoration of Grassalkovich Palace, the country's presidential palace, during the 1990s while continuing to live at the Kovács private home.
- She continued to teach economics during her tenure.
- In a 1998 interview with the Washington Post, Kovácová noted that she admired then-U.S.
- First Lady Hillary Clinton.Kovácová continued to teach at the University of Economics in Bratislava after leaving office in 1998.
- She also focused on her foundation, established during her tenure as first lady, which worked to help the elderly and improve educational opportunities in Slovakia.
