Ana Revenco

Ana Revenco (pronunciation: [reˈvenko]; born 21 May 1977)^[1] is a Moldovan politician.^[2] She served as Minister of Internal Affairs in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Natalia Gavrilița and Dorin Recean.^[3][4]

Ana Revenco
Revenco in 2023
Minister of Internal Affairs
In office 6 August 2021 – 14 July 2023
President	Maia Sandu
Prime Minister	Natalia Gavrilița Dorin Recean
Preceded by	Pavel Voicu
Succeeded by	Adrian Efros
Defense and National Security Advisor to the President – Secretary of the Supreme Security Council
In office 21 January 2021 – 2 September 2021
President	Maia Sandu
Preceded by	Victor Gaiciuc
Succeeded by	Dorin Recean
Personal details
Born	(1977-05-21) 21 May 1977 (age 48) Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova

Early life and education

She was born on May 21, 1977 in Chisinau. In 1994, she entered the Faculty of International Economic Relations of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova in Chisinau, graduating in 1999 with a degree in international economic relations. In 2002-2003, she completed an alternative professional training program at CReDO, a non-profit organization for human rights and democratization of civil society, and received a master's degree in NGO management.^[5] In 2014, she completed training under the international Visitor Leadership program of the Justice and Law Department of the United States Department of State. She speaks Romanian, English and Russian.

Career

Between 1997 and 2000, Revenco served as a public relations assistant for the Moldovan government’s pilot land reform initiative, Land, a project implemented in collaboration with USAID. The project aimed to restructure 72 collective farms in Moldova's agricultural sector and was executed by the American consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. In 2001, she established the Moldovan branch of the International Center “La Strada,” an organization dedicated to combating human trafficking. Revenco served as Executive Director from 2001 to 2012 and again from 2015 to 2020. Between 2009 and 2011, she was also a board member and president of the La Strada Association. From 2010 to 2012, she was a member of the National Participation Council, an advisory body to the Prime Minister composed of representatives from civil society organizations. Between 2012 and 2015, Revenco served as Director of the Center for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings under the General Police Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On January 21, 2021, Revenco was appointed national security advisor to President Maia Sandu and Secretary of the Supreme Security Council. She was first proposed for the position of Minister of Internal Affairs on February 5, 2021, by Prime Minister-designate Natalia Gavrilița, and was re-nominated on August 3, 2021. The Parliament confirmed the Gavrilița cabinet on August 6, 2021.^[6] Revenco held the position until her resignation on July 14, 2023. On October 16, 2023, President Sandu proposed Revenco as Director of the newly established Center for Strategic Communications and Combating Disinformation.^[7] The Parliament approved her appointment on October 19, 2023, and the center officially began operations in April 2024.