Daniel Dăianu
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| Member of the European Parliament for Romania |
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In office 2007–2009 |
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| Born | 30 August 1952 Bucharest |
Daniel Dăianu (born 30 August 1952 in Bucharest) is a Romanian economist, professor and politician. He was a member of the European Parliament between 2009, where he represented the National Liberal Party (Romania). In June 2014 he was elected a member of the Board of the National Bank of Romania. Between April 2013 and June 2014, Dăianu was first deputy president of the Romanian Financial Supervision Authority . He is a member of the High Level Group on Own Resources of the EU, which is headed by Mario Monti. Dăianu is also a member of the European Council for Foreign Relations, since 2012.
He was the Finance Minister of Romania between December 5, 1997 and September 23, 1998, in the governments of Victor Ciorbea and Radu Vasile. He was dismissed because he refused to endorse a controversial deal with Bell Helicopter Textron to purchase 96 AH-1RO Dracula attack helicopters (a variant of AH-1 Cobra), in order to help modernize the armed forces. Dăianu considered that terms of the contract were disadvantageous for the Romanian industry and that the deal was too costly for the Romanian budget at that time.
Between 1992 and 1997, Dăianu was the Chief Economist of the National Bank of Romania. In August 2005, he became President of the Supervision Board of Banca Comercială Română, a position previously held by Sebastian Vlădescu and Florin Georgescu, among others. He resigned this post in December 2007, in order to avoid any conflict of interest with his duties as a member of the European Parliament. During 2012-2-13 he was a member of the Board of CEC Bank.
Dăianu was also the President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES), between 2002–2004.
In 1975, he obtained a Master in Economics from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest and, in 1988, a Ph.D. in Economics from the same institution. He held a post-doctoral research position at Harvard University's Russian Research Center, during 1990-1991 and completed Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program in 1994.
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