Alina Gorghiu

Alina-Ștefania Gorghiu (Romanian pronunciation: [aˈlina ʃtefaˈni.a ɡorˈɡi.u]; born September 16, 1978) is a Romanian lawyer and politician who has served as president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) since December 2014. She has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest since December 2008.

Biography

Born in Tecuci, Gorghiu completed secondary studies at Vlaicu Vodă National College in Curtea de Argeș in 1997. She then attended the Law and Administration Faculty of Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University in Bucharest, graduating in 2001. In 2002-2003, she took postgraduate courses at the University of Bucharest's Law Faculty, and from 2004-2008 worked on a degree at the Economics, Law and Administration Faculty of the University of Pitești. She holds two master's degrees: one in Business Criminal Law from Hyperion University (2006), and one in Communications and Public Relations from the National School of Administration and Political Science of Bucharest (2007). In 2006, she began working on a doctorate in Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Iași; she was granted the degree in 2012.