Ion Chicu had completed his higher education at the Moldovan Academy of Economic Studies and worked there as a lecturer after graduation. In 1994 he takes jobs in the private sector too: first as a department chief and later as the executive director of Moldacom SA.

In 2005, during the Communists Party rule, Mr. Chicu took over as head of the Structural Reforms Department in the Ministry of Economy and Commerce; there he met Igor Dodon who served as a deputy minister.

Some time later he held the post of adviser to then Deputy Premier Zinaida Grecianii, and four months later Mr. Cucu landed in the seat of deputy minister of finance. He returned to Zinaida Grecianii in 2008, when the latter was named prime minister. Mr. Chicu served her as an adviser on economics and foreign policy until September 2009, the time the Communists got swept from power.

The next eight years Ion Chicu worked as a consultant in public finance management in various projects implemented by the Ministry of Finance, the World Bank Office, and the economic consultancy ECORYS.

He returned to the Ministry of Finance as a secretary-general in early 2018, on a ticket from the Democratic Party (PDM), and by the end of the same year he got promoted to the post of minister of Finance. When PDM concedes to relax its grip on power in June 2019, and the Socialists ally with the opposition bloc ACUM, Ion Chicu quit the post.

President Igor Dodon didn't leave him jobless for long - soon Mr. Chicu joined the head of state as his adviser. Three months later the Socialists sacked the government dominated by their ally and Mr. Dodon fielded his adviser to the office of Prime Minister; Ion Chicu wins the confidence vote from the same Socialist and Democratic MPs who dumped the cabinet of Maia Sandu.

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