Maia Sandu

Maia Sandu
300px Maia Sandu at a meeting with Ovidiu Raețchi in January 2016
Moldovan Minister of Education
In office 24 July 2012 – 30 July 2015
Prime Minister	Vlad Filat Iurie Leancă Chiril Gaburici Natalia Gherman(interim)
Preceded by	Mihail Șleahtițchi
Succeeded by	Corina Fusu
Personal details
Born	(1972-05-24) 24 May 1972 Risipeni, Fălești District, Moldova
Political party	Action and Solidarity (2016-present) Liberal Democratic Party (2012–2015)
Alma mater	Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova Academy of Public Administration John F. Kennedy School of Government
Profession	Economist
Religion	Eastern Orthodoxy
Military service
Rank	Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador

Maia Sandu (b. May 24, 1972, Risipeni, Fălești) is a Moldovan economist, and Minister of Education of Moldova from 2012 until 2015. She was considered on 23 July 2015 by the Liberal Democratic Party as a nominee to be the next Prime Minister of Moldova, succeeding Natalia Gherman and Chiril Gaburici. A day after being proposed by a renewed pro-European coalition, Sandu set the departure of the Head of the National Bank of Moldova, Dorin Dragutanu and the State Prosecutor Corneliu Gurin as conditions for her acceptance of the office. Ultimately, Valeriu Strelet was nominated over Sandu by the President of Moldova.

Biography

Maia Sandu was born on 24 May 1972 in the village of Risipeni, in the region of Fălești in Soviet Moldavia. From 1989 to 1994 she majored in management at the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova (ASEM). Then, from 1995 to 1998, she majored in international relations at the ro (AAP) in Chișinău. In 2010 she graduated from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and from 2010 to 2012 she worked as Adviser to the Executive Director at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. On December 23, 2015 she launched a platform „În /pas/ cu Maia Sandu”("Keep pace with Maia Sandu") that would become a political party. Later had been announced that the future party will be called "Partidul Acțiune și Solidaritate" ("Action and Solidarity Party").

External links

• Maia Sandu on Facebook
• Maia Sandu on Twitter
• În /pas/ cu Maia Sandu - a campaign website