Radu Berceanu
| Radu Berceanu | |
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| Minister of Transport and Infrastructure | |
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In office 22 December 2008 – 3 September 2010 |
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| Prime Minister | Emil Boc |
| Preceded by | Ludovic Orban |
| Succeeded by | Anca Boagiu |
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In office 22 August 2006 – 5 April 2007 |
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| Prime Minister | Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu |
| Preceded by | Gheorghe Dobre |
| Succeeded by | Ludovic Orban |
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Minister of Agriculture Acting |
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In office 1 October 2009 – 23 December 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Emil Boc |
| Preceded by | Ilie Sârbu |
| Succeeded by | Mihai Dumitru |
| Minister of Industry and Commerce | |
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In office 17 April 1998 – 28 November 2000 |
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| Prime Minister |
Radu Vasile Mugur Isărescu |
| Preceded by | Mircea Ciumara |
| Succeeded by | Dan Ioan Popescu |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
5 March 1953 Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Political party | Democratic Liberal Party |
| Spouse(s) | Mihaela-Marinela Berceanu |
| Children | Victor (b. 1981) Andrei (b. 1984) |
| Alma mater | Politehnica University of Bucharest |
| Profession | Engineer |
| Religion | Romanian Orthodox |
Radu Mircea Berceanu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈradu berˈt͡ʃe̯anu]; born 5 March 1953) is a Romanian engineer and politician. A member of the Democratic Liberal Party (PD-L), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Dolj County from 1990 to 2004, and sat in the Romanian Senate from 2004 to 2012 (except for the period of April–December 2008), representing the same county. In the Radu Vasile and Mugur Isărescu cabinets, he was Minister of Industry and Commerce from 1998 to 2000; in the first Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet, he was Minister of Transport, Construction and Tourism from 2006 to 2007; and in the Emil Boc cabinet, he was Minister of Transport and Infrastructure from December 2008 to September 2010. From October to December 2009, he was also acting Minister of Agriculture following the political crisis that led to the withdrawal of the Social Democratic Party from government.
In 1978, he married Mihaela-Marinela Bădîrcea (b. 1954). The couple have two sons, Victor (b. 1981) and Andrei (b. 1984).
He was born in Râmnicu Vâlcea; his father was an aviator and his mother a nurse. After completing secondary studies in 1972 at the city's Vasile Roaită Theoretical High School (now called "Mircea cel Bătrân"), he enrolled at the Polytehnic Institute of Bucharest, studying Aerospace Design and graduating in 1978. He also took courses on parliamentarism in Canada in 1990 and on democratic institutions in the United States in 1991. Following university, Berceanu worked as an engineer in Craiova from 1978 to 1981 at a flight testing centre. From 1984 to 1989 he also worked as an engineer at the city's airplane factory. Between 1980 and 1989, he taught at an industrial high school in Craiova.
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