Corina Crețu
| Corina Crețu | |
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| European Commissioner for Regional Policy | |
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Assumed office 1 November 2014 |
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| President | Jean-Claude Juncker |
| Preceded by | Johannes Hahn |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
24 June 1967 Bucharest, Romania |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Ovidiu Rogoz |
| Alma mater | Bucharest University of Economic Studies |
Corina Crețu (born June 24, 1967 in Bucharest) is a Romanian politician and the incumbent European Commissioner for Regional Policy. Crețu is a member of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD), and former Member of the European Parliament (sitting with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats). Between June 2014 and October 2014, she served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament.
Crețu studied at the Academy of Economic Studies, Faculty of Cybernetics, graduating in 1989. She spent a year working as an economist at a factory in Blaj until 1990. She then worked as a journalist and political comentator between 1990 and 1992 for newspapers Azi, Curierul Național, and before joining the Spokesperson's office of the Cabinet of President Ion Iliescu (1992-1996).
In 1996, she became a member of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PDSR).
Between 2000 and 2004, Crețu was Presidential Advisor, Presidential Spokesperson and Head of the Public Communication Department during Ion Iliescu's second mandate as Romanian president.
In 2000 she was elected Deputy in Romania's Parliament and, in 2004, to the Romanian Senate. As a Senator, she sat on the Foreign Policy Committee, and was a full member of the Romanian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE. In January 2005, at the invitation of the Jordanian Government, she conducted a training seminar at Amman for appointees to spokesperson positions in Iraq. Crețu was also an OSCE observer to the parliamentary election of March 2005 in Moldova and to the general election of 2006 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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