Ekaterina Spasova Gecheva-Zaharieva ( bg, Екатерина Спасова Гечева-Захариева; born 8 August 1975) is a Bulgarian politician who served as the
Foreign Minister of Bulgaria
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2017 to 2021. She was interim Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Regional development from 2013.
Early life and education
Zaharieva was born in
Pazardzhik in 1975. She became fluent in
German
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at her local college, then attended the
University of Plovdiv
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where she graduated in law. This was followed by a law master's degree.
[Ekaterina Zakharieva]
President of the Republic, retrieved January 2014
Career
She worked as a lawyer until 2003. She then became a legal Advisor of the Ministry of Environment and Water. Zaharieva became the Director of Legal, Administrative and Regulatory Services in 2007.
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Entering politics in 2009, she became the Minister of Regional Development to Rosen Plevneliev. When Plevneliev became President of Bulgaria, he chose her for the position of one of the Deputy Prime Ministers from March to May in 2013.Visit of Ekaterina Zakharieva, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development and Public Works, to the EC]
March 2013, retrieved January 2014 She was interim deputy Prime Minister to
Marin Raykov
Marin Raykov Nikolov ( bg, Марин Райков Николов ; born 17 December 1960 in Washington, D.C., United States) is a Bulgarian politician and diplomat who was appointed to serve as a caretaker Prime Minister of Bulgaria and minister ...
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
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on 4 May 2017.
See also
*
List of foreign ministers in 2017
*
List of current foreign ministers
References
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1975 births
Living people
People from Pazardzhik
Foreign ministers of Bulgaria
Female foreign ministers
Women government ministers of Bulgaria
21st-century Bulgarian politicians
21st-century Bulgarian women politicians
Deputy prime ministers of Bulgaria
Bulgarian women diplomats
Female justice ministers
Justice ministers of Bulgaria
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