Astrid Fodor

Astrid Cora Fodor (born 6 November 1953) is a Romanian politician of Transylvanian Saxon ethnicity. Between 2008 and 2014, she was the Deputy Mayor of Sibiu, and since 2 December 2014 she has been the mayor of the town, initially ad interim as Klaus Iohannis left office for the Romanian presidency after winning the 2014 Romanian presidential election, then elected by the vast majority of the municipal councillors in 2014, and subsequently by popular vote at the 2016 and 2020 Romanian local elections. Education and professional activity Fodor is a graduate of the Faculty of Administrative Law in Sibiu. From 1978 to 2000 she worked at the "Libertatea" fabric factory, where she performed various functions, eventually that of the commercial manager. From 2002 to 2008 she was the economic director of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania. Political career