Igor Dodon
| Igor Dodon | |
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| President of Moldova | |
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Assumed office 23 December 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Pavel Filip |
| Preceded by | Nicolae Timofti |
| Minister of Economy of Moldova | |
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In office 18 September 2006 – 14 September 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Zinaida Greceanîi |
| Preceded by | Valeriu Lazăr |
| Succeeded by | Valeriu Lazăr |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova | |
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In office 31 March 2008 – 14 September 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Zinaida Greceanîi |
| Preceded by | Zinaida Greceanîi |
| Succeeded by | Iurie Leancă |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
18 February 1975 Sadova, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova) |
| Political party |
Party of Communists (Before 2011) Party of Socialists (2011–2016) Independent (2016–present) |
| Alma mater | Agricultural State University of Moldova |
| Website | www.dodon.md |
Igor Dodon (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈgor doˈdon]; Russian: Игорь Никола́евич Додон, tr. Igor' Nikolaevich Dodon; born 18 February 1975) is a Moldovan politician who has been President of Moldova since 23 December 2016. Previously he was leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova. He served as Minister of Trade and Economics in the communist governments of Vasile Tarlev and Zinaida Greceanîi from September 2006 to September 2009 and was a member of the Parliament of Moldova from 2009 to 2016.
Igor Dodon was born on 18 February 1975 in Sadova village in the Călărași District of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. He studied economics at the Agricultural State University of Moldova and received a doctorate in 1998 from the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova. From 1997 till 2005 he worked as an assistant professor and lecturer in the academic field.
He is married and has three children.
Dodon was appointed to the post of Associate Minister of Trade and Economics in May 2005, during the second Tarlev Cabinet. He assumed the position of Minister of Trade and Economics in September 2006. He held the position until September 2009, when the government of Zinaida Greceanîi ended. Dodon also held the post of Associate Prime Minister under Greceanîi from 2008 until 2009.
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