Natalia Gavrilița

Natalia Gavrilița
Gavrilița in 2023
15th Prime Minister of Moldova
In office
6 August 2021  16 February 2023
PresidentMaia Sandu
Deputy
Preceded byAureliu Ciocoi (acting)
Succeeded byDorin Recean
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office
23 July 2021  8 September 2021
Succeeded byAna Calinici
Parliamentary groupParty of Action and Solidarity
Minister of Finance
In office
8 June 2019  14 November 2019
PresidentIgor Dodon
Prime MinisterMaia Sandu
Preceded byIon Chicu
Succeeded bySergiu Pușcuța
Personal details
Born
Natalia Catrinescu

(1977-09-21) 21 September 1977
Mălăiești, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova)
Citizenship Moldova
 Romania
Political partyParty of Action and Solidarity
Alma materMoldova State University (LLB)
Harvard Kennedy School (MPP)
ProfessionEconomist

Natalia Gavrilița (Romanian: [ɡavriˈlitsa]; born 21 September 1977) is a Moldovan economist and politician who served as prime minister of Moldova from 2021 until her resignation in February 2023 after failure to get her reform package enacted.

Gavrilița had been previously proposed as prime minister by Maia Sandu in February 2021, but was rejected by the PSRM-Șor parliamentary majority. She was proposed once again in August 2021, following the 2021 parliamentary election, and was approved along with her cabinet.

In the 2021 parliamentary election, Gavrilița was also elected to the Parliament of Moldova on behalf of the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS). She previously served as finance minister from June 2019 to November 2019 in the cabinet of Sandu, when the latter served as prime minister.