Galina Dodon | |
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![]() Dodon in 2018 | |
First Lady of Moldova | |
In role 23 December 2016 – 24 December 2020 | |
President | Igor Dodon |
Preceded by | Margareta Timofti |
Personal details | |
Born | Molovata, Dubăsari District, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union | 12 February 1977
Nationality | Moldovan |
Spouse | Igor Dodon (m. 1999) |
Children | 3 |
Profession | Accountant |
Website | Official website[dead link] |
Galina Dodon (born 12 February 1977[1]) is the wife of the former President of Moldova Igor Dodon, serving as the First Lady of Moldova from 2016 to 2020.[2]
She was born on 12 February 1977 in Molovata in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. She began her professional activity as an accountant in September 1999,[3] the same year that she married Igor Dodon, whom she met in a student hostel.[4] Until 2012, she was deputy chief accountant at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Moldova.[5] She has been the financial director of Exclusive Media since March 2012.[6] Dodon has said that she always tries to avoid politics at home and in the media.[7]
Galina and Igor Dodon have three children: Bogdan, Vlad, and Nicolae. Apart from her native language- Romanian, she is also fluent in Russian and English.[2][5]