Slavjanka Petrovska

Slavjanka Petrovska was born on January 11, 1982, in Skopje.^[1] She completed her schooling there before graduating in law from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje in Skopje.^[2] She is a candidate for a master's in administrative law at the same institution.^[2]

Petrovska worked in the Secretariat on European Affairs from 2003 until 2006, then spent two years working at the Assembly on International Cooperation.^[1] From 2008 until 2015, she worked for the National Council on Euro-Integration.^[1]

Petrovska was in the Cabinet of the Minister of the Interior for two short stints in 2015 and 2016 and then Chief of Staff to the Minister from June 2017.^[2] From January 2020 til July 2020 she was a Deputy Minister of Interior for the caretaker government before the July 2020 parliamentary elections.^[2] She was then elected as a Member of the Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia for the ruling SDSM party, serving on the legislative, oversight, and national security committees.^[2][3]

Petrovska was appointed Minister of Defense by Prime Minister Dimitar Kovačevski on 17 January 2022.^[2][4] She said later that month that North Macedonia favoured a diplomatic solution to the Russia-Ukraine dispute. On 1 March, she announced that North Macedonia would donate military material and equipment to Ukraine.^[5]

In June 2022, Petrovska attended the inaugural US-North Macedonia Strategic Dialogue in Washington DC^[6] and in October 2022 she made a two-day official visit to Slovenia for bilateral talks.^[7]