Background
She was born in Sofia, Bulgaria to a Hungarian mother, Piroska Apró, and a Bulgarian father, Petar Dobrev.
She was born in Sofia, Bulgaria to a Hungarian mother, Piroska Apró, and a Bulgarian father, Petar Dobrev.
Her maternal grandfather, Antal Apró, was Hungary"s Minister of Industry in the 1950s–60s. Dobrev spent her internship at MODI XEROX as a marketing assistant at Bangalore, India. She has held several government positions in the past, including Chief Cabinet to Péter Medgyessy during the 2001–2002 election, and Vice-President of the Office for the National Development Plan and European Union Support, where she served from 2002 until her husband"s nomination for Prime Minister in 2004 when she resigned.
She is a senior lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University.
During her years at the University of Economics she was a member of International Association of Students in Economic and Commercial Sciences, and at the organization"s 1992 world conference she was the animator board"s vice president responsible for public relations.