Constantin Niță

Constantin Niţă (born November 27, 1955) is a Romanian economist and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Braşov County since 2000. In the Emil Boc cabinet, he was Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce and Business Environment from 2008 to 2009.

He is married and has one child.

He was born in Miroslovești, Iaşi County, attended primary school there, and completed secondary studies at Theoretical High School no. 1 in Paşcani in 1973. Following army service (1973-1974), he studied Industrial Economics at the University of Iaşi, graduating in 1978. From that year until 1983 he studied Law at the same institution. He took a post-graduate course in foreign trade from 1983 to 1984, and from 1995 to 1999 worked on a doctorate at Iaşi, earning one in Marketing. He has taken additional courses in Lugoj and Bucharest, and from 1998 to 2001 taught at the Transylvania University of Braşov; since 2001, he has taught Marketing at the George Bariţiu University of Braşov. Niţă has co-written five books on marketing and tourism, written one, and published over 50 articles in specialty magazines. His first job was as an economist from 1978 to 1983; he headed the export division at a truck factory in Braşov. From 1983 to 1986 he was also an economist at a motor vehicle import-export firm in Braşov, and from 1986 to 1993 headed a travel agency in that city. From 1990 to 1993 he was director of the Pîrîul Rece resort there, and from 1993 to 1997 he led an agency coordinating protocol visits to the Prahova Valley. From 1997 to 2000 he directed another Braşov travel agency. He belongs to a number of civic associations in his adopted city.

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