Ekaterina Zakharieva

Ekaterina Zakharieva
Zakharieva in 2017
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Assumed office
4 May 2017
Prime Minister Boyko Borisov
Preceded by Radi Naidenov
Minister of Justice
In office
3 January 2015 – 27 January 2017
Prime Minister Boyko Borisov
Preceded by Hristo Ivanov
Succeeded by Maria Pavlova
Personal details
Born (1975-08-08) 8 August 1975
Pazardzhik, Bulgaria
Political party Reformist Bloc
Alma mater Plovdiv University

Ekaterina Spasova Gecheva-Zakharieva (Bulgarian: Екатерина Спасова Гечева-Захариева) (born 8 August 1975) is a Bulgarian politician who has served as Foreign Minister of Bulgaria since 4 May 2017. She was interim Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Regional development from 2013.

Early life and education

Zakharieva was born in Pazardzhik in 1975 and after becoming fluent in German at her local college she attended the University of Plovdiv, where she graduated in law and then she took a law master's degree.[1]

Career

After being a lawyer until 2003 she became a legal Advisor of the Ministry of Environment and Water. Zakharieva became the Director of Legal, Administrative and Regulatory Services in 2007.[1]

Entering politics in 2009, she became the Minister of Regional Development to Rossen Plevneliev. When Plevneliev became President of the Republic of Bulgaria, he chose her for the position one of the Deputy Prime ministers from March to May in 2013.[2] She was interim deputy Prime Minister to Marin Raykov in the Bulgarian Cabinet.

In 2013 she was the minister of Regional Development. From 18 December 2015 she served as Minister of Justice until 27 January 2017. She became the Foreign Minister of Bulgaria on 4 May 2017.[3][3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Ekaterina Zakharieva, President of the Republic, retrieved January 2014
  2. ↑ Visit of Ekaterina Zaharieva, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development and Public Works, to the EC, March 2013, retrieved January 2014
  3. 1 2 "Minister of Foreign Affairs". The Republic of Bulgaria.
Political offices
Preceded by
Hristo Ivanov		 Minister of Justice
2015–2017		 Succeeded by
Maria Pavlova
Preceded by
Radi Naidenov		 Minister of Foreign Affairs
2017–present		 Incumbent
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