Cristina Gherasimov (born 29 January 1984) is a Moldovan politician. She currently serves as Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration of Moldova in the Recean Cabinet. As part of her role, she leads the talks for

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and hope the negotiation framework set out by the

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will enable to speed up the domestic reform agenda for a quicker accession.

Early life

Gherasimov was born on 29 January 1984. From 2002 to 2007 she studied at the

Moldova State University Moldova State University (USM; Romanian language, Romanian: ''Universitatea de Stat din Moldova'') is a university located in Chișinău, Moldova. It was founded in 1946, and initially had five faculties, Physics and Mathematics, Geology and Ped ...

in Chisinau, graduating from the Faculty of International Relations. While studying she had an exchange program for a year at

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. From 2008 to 2009 she then attended the European Institute for Advanced International Studies, receiving her

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before going to the

University of Wroclaw A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Univ ...

. From 2009 to 2011, she then studied at Wroclaw, graduating with her second master's in international relations. She then studied for her

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in political science from

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, where she was simultaneously a lecturer in international relations and European politics from 2013 to 2016. After graduating she worked as a research fellow at the

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, specializing in the Russia and Eurasia Program, before becoming a research fellow at the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia until 2020.

Political career

Before becoming minister, she was state secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2024 she became Deputy Prime Minister of European Affairs and European Integration in

Dorin Recean Dorin Recean (born 17 March 1974) is a Moldovan politician, economist, and academic serving as Prime Minister of Moldova since February 2023. Since 2022 he has also served as Presidential Advisor on Defense and National Security, and Secretary ...

's government.

References

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