Marija Golubeva

Golubeva studied English philology at the University of Latvia, graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in 1994.[1] In 1995, she obtained a Master's Degree in history from the Central European University.[1] She then attended the University of Cambridge, where she earned doctorate in 2000.[1]

In 1999, Golubeva became a Lecturer at the Latvian Academy of Culture (lv), where she taught courses in cultural history.[2] In the 2001–2002 school year, she was the acting head of the Department of Political Science at Riga Stradiņš University, and the following year she served as the head of a research center at The Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences.[2] She then worked as a consultant at the State Chancellery, and from 2004 to 2012 and again from 2014 to 2016 she worked as a researcher at the public policy research center PROVIDUS.[2] She has also consulted for ICF International.[1] She particularly specializes in the study of education policy and immigration policy.[2]

In 2017, Golubeva was a founding member of the Development/For! party, and she was elected to its first board.[3]

In the 2018 Latvian parliamentary election, Golubeva was elected to the Saeima.[4] She was then also elected Secretary of the Saeima.[5]

Golubeva is the second openly LGBT member of the Saeima in Latvian history, after Edgars Rinkēvičs.[6] She was also one of the record high number of women elected to the Saeima in that election.[4]