EC
European Commission
Roxana Mînzatu
Executive Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness
She leads work to strengthen Europe’s human capital by advancing social rights, closing skills and labour gaps, ensuring quality jobs and fair transitions, promoting education and equality, supporting youth, tackling poverty, and fostering lifelong learning and workforce adaptability. She also guides the work to embed a new culture of preparedness to help people and societies adapt to change and to risks that exist in our society.
In June 2024, Ms Mînzatu was elected to the European Parliament.
She previously served in the Romanian government as Minister of European Funds and Secretary of State for Programs Financed by Public and European Funds.
From 2016 to 2020, Ms Mînzatu was a Member of the Romanian Parliament. In 2015, she was appointed President of the Romanian National Agency for Public Procurement.
Her political career began in 2004 as a county councilor in her home county of Brasov, later serving as Deputy Prefect.
Ms Mînzatu holds a BA in Political Science (2002) from the University of Bucharest and a Master’s in European Integration (2005) from the University Dimitrie Cantemir.
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