Brussels Forum Session: Transatlantic Defense: Who Pays? Who Acts?
Radmila Shekerinska is NATO deputy secretary general. She was previously deputy prime minister and minister of defense of North Macedonia. She is the first woman to have served as her country’s minister of defense and the longest-serving in that post since North Macedonia's independence in 1991. She also served as a member of North Macedonia’s Parliament and is the only woman to have led any major political party in the country.
Shekerinska helped broker complex agreements, most notably the three that shaped North Macedonia’s democratic path: the Ohrid, Przhino, and Prespa agreements. She received the Commander of the National Order for Merit of France in 2018 for outstanding civic merit.
Shekerinska studied electrical engineering in Skopje and holds a master’s degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She has taught a course on EU structures and institutions at the University American College of Skopje.