Maia Sandu is a Moldovan economist, and Minister of Education of Moldova from 2012 until 2015. She was considered onJuly 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 proEuropean 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.
Maia Sandu was born onMay 1972 in the village of Risipeni, in the region of Fleti in Soviet Moldavia. From 1989 to 1994 she majored in management at the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova . Then, from 1995 to 1998, she majored in international relations at the Academy of Public Administration160 in Chiinu. 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 n pas cu Maia Sandu that would become a political party. Later had been announced that the future party will be called Partidul Aciune i Solidaritate .
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