Marija Golubeva
Marija Golubeva | |
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Member of the Saeima | |
Assumed office November 6, 2018 | |
Parliamentary group | Development/For! |
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Marija Golubeva (born 28 June 1973) is a Latvian politician, political scientist, and historian. She is a member of the 13th Saeima and leader of the Development/For! Saeima fraction, and she also was elected by the Presidium of the Saeima to serve in the Saeima Secretariat. Since 3 June 2021 she is serving as Minister of the Interior of Latvia. In her academic work, she specializes in the politics of education and immigration.
Life and career[]
Golubeva studied English philology at the University of Latvia, graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in 1994.[1] In 1995, she obtained a Master's Degree in history from the Central European University.[1] She then attended the University of Cambridge, where she earned doctorate in 2000.[1]
In 1999, Golubeva became a Lecturer at the Latvian Academy of Culture (lv), where she taught courses in cultural history.[2] In the 2001–2002 school year, she was the acting head of the Department of Political Science at Riga Stradiņš University, and the following year she served as the head of a research center at The Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences.[2] She then worked as a consultant at the State Chancellery, and from 2004 to 2012 and again from 2014 to 2016 she worked as a researcher at the public policy research center PROVIDUS.[2] She has also consulted for ICF International.[1] She particularly specializes in the study of education policy and immigration policy.[2]
In 2017, Golubeva was a founding member of the Development/For! party, and she was elected to its first board.[3]
In the 2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Golubeva was elected to the Saeima.[4] She was then also elected Secretary of the Saeima.[5]
Golubeva is the second openly LGBT member of the Saeima in Latvian history, after Edgars Rinkēvičs.[6] She was also one of the record high number of women elected to the Saeima in that election.[4]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Marija Golubeva" (in Latvian). Government of Latvia. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Maria Golubeva" (in Latvian). Development/For!. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ "Partiju "Kustība Par!" vadīs Pavļuts; valdē ievēlē arī Viņķeli un Dālderi". LSM (in Latvian). August 26, 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Record number of women elected in 13th Saeima". Baltic News Network. October 8, 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ Semjonova, Ella (November 6, 2018). "13. Saeimas pirmajā sēdē sadalītas vietas Prezidijā – bez amatiem paliek "KPV LV" un ZZS". LSM (in Latvian). Retrieved 3 September 2020.
- ^ Dunne, Peter (October 9, 2018). "Latvia Makes History By Electing Openly LGBT+ Politicians". GCN. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- Living people
- Latvian political scientists
- 21st-century Latvian women writers
- Women political scientists
- Deputies of the 13th Saeima
- 21st-century Latvian women politicians
- Women deputies of the Saeima
- LGBT politicians from Latvia
- Lesbian politicians
- 1973 births