Ligia Deca is the NLP’s bid for the post of Education Minister, left vacant by the resignation of Sorin Kimpeanu. Ligia Deka is an adviser to the President in the Department of Education and Research, coordinator of the “Educated Romania” project and laws on education. President Klaus Iohannis supported her to assume this position.

17:00 President Klaus Iohannis appointed Ligia Deku to the position of Minister of Education, dismissing her from the position of presidential adviser.

The new Minister of Education will take the oath at 18:00 in the Kotrochen Palace.

15:32 Presidential adviser Ligia Deka, who was nominated by the NLP to serve as education minister, spoke of her “mission” to “realize the vision of an Educated Romania,” saying she would “enact an Educated Romania” in letter and spirit, according to President Klaus Iohannis’ statements.

14:09 Nicolae Chuke announced the PNL’s decision to nominate Ligia Deku as Minister of Education, saying that he is “a person who worked and participated in the sense that he coordinated with the Ministry of Education during the development process and then during the public debate on the national laws on education”.

“He is able to continue and adhere to the schedule of discussion and approval of the package of laws in the government, so that by the end of October it will be approved and submitted for discussion to the parliament,” said the NLP leader.

We will remind, after the resignation of Sorin Kimpeanu, political sources informed HotNews.ro that Ligia Deka will be the favorite of the Ministry of Education. Other names that appeared in the sources were Sorin Kostreje, an adviser to Prime Minister Chuke, and PNL deputy Alexandru Muraru.

Ligia Deka, born in 1982, holds a PhD in Political Science, awarded in 2016 by the University of Luxembourg, and completed a postdoctoral program at New Europe College. In 2010-2012, he coordinated the work of the Secretariat of the Bologna Process, managed the process of organizing the Conference of Ministers of Education of the Member States of the European Higher Education Area (April 2012), according to the summary published on the president’s website. Administration.

In 2012-2015, he was a public policy expert at the Executive Department for Higher Education Funding, Research, Development and Innovation, and an associate lecturer at the University of West Timisoara (2014-2015) and SNSPA (2019-2021).

Author and co-author of numerous articles and studies published in journals in the field of education policy, with research activities that covered various topics, from the internationalization of higher education to educational practices of adaptation to the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. , Ligia Deca cooperated as an expert with EQAR, DAAD, Council of Europe, European Commission, etc.

In 2014, she was invited to join the Expert Group “Science in Education”, created at the initiative of the European Commission. In 2017-2020, he was a member of the Executive Board of the Fulbright Commission in Romania.

Ligia Deka was appointed State Counselor on June 29, 2015, and President’s Counselor on December 23, 2019.