Rita Klímová
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Czech diplomat and economist
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Political Science Economics
Rita Klímová's Degrees
- PhD Economics Charles University
- Masters International Relations Charles University
Why Is Rita Klímová Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rita Klímová, née Rita Budínová was a Czech economist and politician. She was Czechoslovakia's ambassador to the United States before that country's breakup in 1992. Early life Klímová was born in Romania. Her father was Stanislav Budín , a prominent Communist writer who used the pen name Batya Bat. Due to their Jewish ancestry, her family fled to the United States not long after Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939. She settled in New York City in 1939, returning to Czechoslovakia in 1946 to finish her education. As a result, for the rest of her life she spoke American English with an "industrial-strength" New York accent.
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