Ramona Petraviča | |
Office: | Minister for Welfare |
Term Start: | 23 January 2019 |
Term End: | 3 June 2021 |
Primeminister: | Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš |
Predecessor: | Jānis Reirs |
Successor: | Gatis Eglītis |
Birth Date: | 1967 9, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Auce, Latvian SSR |
Party: | For a Humane Latvia (2017-2022)[1] Latvia First (since 2022) |
Spouse: | Aleksandrs Petravičs |
Alma Mater: | Riga Technical University |
Ramona Petraviča (born 25 September 1967 in Auce) is a Latvian politician and financier, who is a member of the Saeima and who between 23 January 2019 and 3 June 2021 served as in the Kariņš cabinet led by Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš.[2] [3]
Petraviča graduated from Riga Technical University with a degree in chemical technology in 1992.
Before being elected to the Saeima in 2018, Petraviča was the finance director of the Saldus-based logistics company SIA Monēta and, since 2017, a member of the Saldus Municipality Council. She was elected in 2018 to the Saeima as an MP, and, after losing her ministerial portfolio, returned to parliament. In 2022 she quit the For a Humane Latvia party and later joined the Latvia First party of oligarch Ainārs Šlesers, being re-elected in the elections later that year.