{{Short description|Luxembourgish politician (born 1957)}} {{redirect|Reicherts|a similar, more common, name|Reichert}} [[File:Martine Reicherts 2014 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Reicherts in 2014]] '''Martine Reicherts''' (born 13 April 1957) is a [[Luxembourg]]ish politician who served as [[European Commissioner]] in 2014 and as the European Union's Director-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture until her retirement in 2018, when she was replaced by [[Themis Christophidou]].<ref name="movers" /> She had previously held the post of Director-General of the Office for Official Publications of the European Union.<ref name="cv-2014" />
She was born in [[Luxembourg City]], Luxembourg, and educated at the [[European School, Luxembourg I]]. She studied at the [[University of Luxembourg]], [[University of Nice]], [[University of Aix-en-Provence]] and [[University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas|University "Paris II"]] and has a Master of Laws and a D.E.A. in Business Law. After practising as a lawyer at the bar in Luxembourg from 1980 to 1984 she worked at the [[European Commission]] from 1984 until her retirement in 2018. From 1988 to 1991 she taught taxation at the [[Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management]].<ref name=cv-2014 />
She served as a [[European Commissioner]] in the [[Barroso Commission]], with a portfolio of Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship.<ref name="commissioners" />
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<ref name="commissioners">{{cite web |title=Who is who – Barroso Commission – European Commission |url=https://ec.europa.eu/archives/commission_2010-2014/members/index_en.htm |website=Commissioners 2010-2014 |publisher=European Commission |accessdate=1 October 2019}}</ref>
<ref name="cv-2014">{{cite web |title=CV (archived 3 November 2014) |url=https://ec.europa.eu/archives/commission_2010-2014/reicherts/about/cv/index_en.htm |publisher=European Union |accessdate=1 October 2019 |quote=Office for Official Publications of the European Union – Luxembourg: Director General}}</ref>
<ref name="movers">{{cite news |last1=Balkoura |first1=Ifigenia |title=Movers and shakers |url=https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/articles/news/movers-and-shakers-26-february-2018 |accessdate=1 October 2019 |work=The Parliament Magazine |publisher=European Union |date=26 February 2018 |quote=She will take over from Martine REICHERTS, who retired at the end of January.}}</ref>
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