Natalia-Elena Intotero

Natalia-Elena Intotero (born 14 January 1976) is a Romanian politician from the Social Democratic Party (PSD) formerly serving as Minister of Culture and as Minister of Family, Youth and Equality of Opportunity.

Life In 1995 she graduated from the "Sabin Dragoi" Pedagogical High School in Brad, and afterward worked part-time, as a teacher at the "Horea, Cloșca and Crișan" General School which is also located in Brad until 2004. Natalia-Elena Intotero studied English language at the West University of Timișoara then studied international relations at the University of Bucharest.

She became the director of the Horea school from 2008 to 2009 after her studies. After being secretary, she returned to education as deputy director of the "Avram Iancu" National College until 2011. In 2020 she was proposed for a new mandate as deputy for Hunedoara County, which she successfully won, and soon after she became chairman of the Education Committee in December 2020. During the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, she advocated for schools to stay open, saying that classes were closed because of the incapacity of the people who had led the educational system.

On 19 July 2023, she was sworn in as Minister of Family, Youth and Equality of Opportunity in the Ciolacu Cabinet.