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Ludovic Orban

Ludovic Orban
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Orban in 2008
Deputy General Mayor of Bucharest
In office
June 2004 – 5 April 2007
Serving with Rǎzvan Murgeanu
Succeeded by Grigore Ioan Popa
Minister of Transport
In office
5 April 2007 – 22 December 2008
President Traian Băsescu
Nicolae Văcăroiu
Traian Băsescu
Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
Preceded by Radu Berceanu
Succeeded by Radu Berceanu
Deputy
In office
December 2008 – December 2016
Constituency No. 41 Bucharest
Personal details
Born 25 May 1963
Braşov
Nationality Romanian
Political party National Liberal Party
Spouse(s) Mihaela Orban
Alma mater Transylvania University of Braşov

Ludovic Orban (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈludovik ˈorban]; born May 25, 1963) is a Romanian engineer and politician. A member of the National Liberal Party (PNL), he was Minister of Transport from April 2007 to December 2008 in the second Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet. He was also a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest from 2008 to 2016.

He and his wife Mihaela have one son. His brother is the former European Commissioner for Multilingualism, Leonard Orban.

He was born in Braşov to an ethnic Hungarian father and an ethnic Romanian mother. Orban completed secondary studies at the city's Andrei Şaguna High School in 1982. He then studied automobile design technology at the University of Braşov, graduating in 1988. In 1993, he completed post-graduate studies in Political Science at the National School of Administration and Political Science of Bucharest. From 1988 to 1990 he trained as an engineer at a factory in Târgu Secuiesc, and worked as one at a Braşov factory from 1990 to 1991. From 1991 to 1992, he wrote for the daily Viitorul Românesc, and from 1992 to 1997 he was an advisor for the Liberal Party 1993 and its predecessor. Between 1997 and 2001 he held a series of government and agency positions: at the Energy Policy Agency, the Disabled Persons Directorate, the Public Information Department, the National Public Employee Agency and the National Centre for Communications and Public Relations Specialisation. He has also been active in a foundation called Children, the light of the world and done consulting work.


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