Daniel Dăianu

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Daniel Dăianu

Daniel Dăianu (born 30 August 1952, Bucharest) is a Romanian economist, professor and politician. He has been a member of the European Parliament since end of 2007, when he was elected on the National Liberal Party's lists.

He was the Finance Minister of Romania between December 5th, 1997 and September 23rd, 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.

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.

Daniel Dăianu is also a professor of public finance, at the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) in Bucharest. During different periods, he held research positions at the Russian Research Center (Harvard University), the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington, D.C.), the NATO Defense College (Rome), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organization for European Cooperation in Europe (OECD). Between 1999 - 2004, he was a professor at the Academy of Economic Studies (ASE) in Bucharest, at the University of California, Berkeley, at the University of California, Los Angeles and at the University of Bologna.

During Nicolae Ceauşescu's communist regime, he worked for the Securitate's Foreign Intelligence Unit (DIE), between 1976 and September 1978. He left DIE in 1978, of his own volition and he became known, in the following decade, for his writings against Ceauşescu's economic policy, which were highlightted on Radio Free Europe (RFE) at the time. In September 2007, the National Council for Analyzing the State Security Department Files (CNSAS) decided that Daniel Dăianu had worked for the External Intelligence Unit solely on economic issues^[1].

Between 1979 and 1990, he was a researcher at the Economic Socialist Institute.

Daniel Dăianu has been an associate member of the Romanian Academy since 2001.

He has published several books and his columns appear regularly in Jurnalul Naţional, Ziarul Financiar, Piaţa Financiară and Southeast European Times.

[edit] Selected writings

• Funcţionarea economiei şi echilibrul extern (Editura Academiei Române, 1992), ISBN 9732702893
• Economic Vitality and Viability: A Dual Challenge for European Security (Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1996), ISBN 0820431842
• Transformation of Economy As a Real Process: An Insider's Perspective (Ashgate Publishing, April 1999), ISBN 1840144750
• Balkan reconstruction, by Daniel Dăianu and Thanos Veremes (Frank Cass, January 2001) ISBN 0714651486, ISBN 0714681725
• Ethical Boundaries of Capitalism, by Daniel Dăianu and Radu Vrânceanu (Ashgate Publishing, June 2005), ISBN 0754643956
• Frontierele etice ale capitalismului, translated into Romanian by Dorin Nistor, Alina Pelea, Marius Gulei (Polirom, 2006) ISBN 973-46-0085-0
• Pariul României. Economia noastră: reformă şi integrare, (Bucharest, Compania, 2006), ISBN 973-9119-95-2
• Ce vom fi în Uniune, (Iaşi, Polirom, 2006), ISBN (10) 973-46-0269-1
• South East Europe and The World We Live In (Bucharest, The Romanian Diplomatic Institiute, 2008), ISBN 978-973-27-1628-1

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