Ilze Juhansone (born 1971) is the

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. She is a European civil servant and former

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n diplomat. In August 2019, she became the acting Secretary-General pending the search for a full-time successor to Germany's

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. Following the period as acting Secretary-General, she was appointed Secretary-General on 14 January 2020. From October 2015 until 2019, she was Deputy Secretary-General for interinstitutional and external relations, and before that had been Permanent Representative of Latvia to the

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from 2011 to 2015, including during its Council Presidency in the first half of 2015. This was preceded by having been Director General for EU Affairs at the Latvian Foreign Ministry between 2008 and 2011. While Permanent Representative of Latvia, she was awarded the

Order of the Three Stars Order of the Three Stars () is the highest civilian order awarded for meritorious service to Latvia. It was established in 1924 in remembrance of the founding of Latvia. Its motto is ''Per aspera ad astra'', meaning "Through hardships towards the ...

, 3rd class.

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