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Personal data
Date and place of birth: 17 September 1949, Bucharest
Civil status: married, 1 child
Education; scientific degrees
1971 Faculty of Finance-Accounting - Academy of Economic Studies;
1991 scholarship for studies in macroeconomics, JAICA Governmental Agency, Japan
Political activity
founder member of the PDSR;
member of the PDSR National Council;
spokesman of the PDSR for the local and parliamentary campaigns in 2000;
since 2000, Minister of Tourism
Parliamentary activity
deputy representing Bacau County, since 1992;
member of the Foreign Policy Committee;
1996-2000 member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Co-operation;
1996-2000 vicepresident of the Economic, Trading, Technological, and Environment Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Co-operation;
since 2000, member of the Committee for the Investigation of Abuses and Corruption, and for Petitions
Professional activities
before 1989, economic manager of the Institute of Technological Research and Engineering, Design and Production for Non-Ferrous Metals, Bucharest;
after 1989, director within the Government of Romania;
1991 under-secretary of state, in charge of the relations between the Government and the trade unions and the employers' associations;
1992-1996, Minister of Tourism, vicepresident of the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organisation
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