Irena Stefoska

Irena Stefoska (born 16 September 1967 in Skopje) is a Macedonian historian and politician. She has been a Member of Parliament of North Macedonia (2016–2020) and was Minister of Culture from 2020 to 2022, when her successor was ).

Life Stefoska has a degree (1991) from the Institute of Classical Studies of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, master's degrees from Central European University in Budapest (1994) and the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (2001), and a PhD (2007) from Skopje's Institute of History at the Faculty of Philosophy. She also claimed that culture is not a luxury but rather an “important strategic investment’ for the benefit of society. In 2021 the opposition party, Alternative, accused Stefoska of discriminating against Albanian artists. Stefoska was replaced as Minister in 2022 by Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojcevska).

Selected publications