Dacian Cioloș
| Dacian Cioloș | |
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| Prime Minister of Romania | |
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In office 17 November 2015 – 4 January 2017 |
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| President | Klaus Iohannis |
| Preceded by | Sorin Cîmpeanu (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Sorin Grindeanu |
| European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development | |
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In office 9 February 2010 – 1 November 2014 |
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| President | José Manuel Barroso |
| Preceded by | Mariann Fischer Boel |
| Succeeded by | Phil Hogan |
| Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development | |
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In office 5 August 2007 – 22 December 2008 |
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| Prime Minister | Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu |
| Preceded by | Decebal Traian Remeș |
| Succeeded by | Ilie Sârbu |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
27 July 1969 Zalău, Romania |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Valérie Villemin (m. 2000) |
| Alma mater |
University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine École nationale supérieure agronomique University of Montpellier 1 |
Dacian Julien Cioloș (Romanian pronunciation: [dat͡ʃiˈan ˈt͡ʃjoloʃ]; born 27 July 1969) is a Romanian agronomist who was Prime Minister of Romania between November 2015 and January 2017. In the Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet, he was Agriculture Minister from October 2007 to December 2008. In November 2009, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso nominated him to be the next Agriculture Commissioner, a post he assumed in February 2010 and held until his term expired in November 2014. In November 2015, President Klaus Iohannis named him Prime Minister, and Cioloș assumed office after receiving approval from Parliament. He remained until after the 2016 parliamentary election, which was lost by the parties that called for Cioloș to continue his term.
He was born in Zalău, but spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in nearby Pericei village, where he developed an interest in farming. After graduating from the agricultural high school in Șimleu Silvaniei in 1987, he attended the Faculty of Horticulture at the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, earning a horticultural engineer's degree in 1994. He also holds degrees in the economy of agricultural development from the École nationale supérieure agronomique de Rennes and from the University of Montpellier 1, where he respectively earned a master's in 1997 and a doctorate in 2006. He has belonged to the agricultural think tank Groupe de Bruges since 2000. Although in Romania Cioloș is a political independent, he is affiliated with the European People's Party (EPP) at the European level.
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