Natalia-Elena Intotero

Natalia-Elena Intotero is a Romanian politician from the Social Democratic Party currently serving as Minister of Culture and formerly as Minister of Family, Youth and Equality of Opportunity.

Life

In 1995 she graduated from the "Sabin Dragoi" Pedagogical High School in Brad, and afterward worked part-time as a teacher at the "Horea, Cloșca and Crișan" General School which is also located in Brad until 2004. Natalia-Elena Intotero studied English language at the West University of Timișoara then studied international relations at the University of Bucharest.
She became the director of the Horea school from 2008 to 2009 after her studies. In March 2009, she became secretary of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After being secretary, she returned to education as deputy director of the "Avram Iancu" National College until 2011. In 2012 she was briefly again Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until she became deputy.
She was a member of the Parliament of Romania following the 2012 Romanian parliamentary election and the 2016 Romanian parliamentary election. She is deputy of the Commission for Foreign Policy since December 2012 and vice-president of the PSD Parliamentary Group.
Between January 2018 and April 2019, she was secretary of state for the Romanians living abroad. In 2020 she was proposed for a new mandate as deputy for Hunedoara County, which she successfully won, and soon after she became chairman of the Education Committee in December 2020. During the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, she advocated for schools to stay open, saying that classes were closed because of the incapacity of the people who had led the educational system.
On 19 July 2023, she was sworn in as Minister of Family, Youth and Equality of Opportunity in the Ciolacu Cabinet.