predecessor successor birth_place president nationality party office profession primeminister birth_date term_start article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
daniel chițoiu darius -rrb- vâlcov -lrb- finance -rrb- mihai tudose -lrb- economy bucharest , romania traian băsescu romanian independent minister of economy and finance economist victor ponta '' third ponta cabinet '' july 1 , 1980 4 march 2014 ioana petrescu
 15 december 2014 ioana maria petrescu politician wellesley college harvard university
ioana petrescu

ioana maria petrescu -lrb- born july 1 , 1980 -rrb- is a romanian economist who served as the country 's finance minister between march and december 2014 .
the daughter of two engineers , she was brought up by her grandparents in cornu until she went to school in bucharest .
after graduating from the mihai viteazul high school , she received a b.a in economics and mathematics from wellesley college , and later a ph.d in economics from harvard university .
she worked as an n.r.i. fellow at the american enterprise institute in washington , dc , before she became an assistant professor at the university of maryland .
taking a two-year leave from teaching , she was named in the second half of 2013 a state counselor for economic affairs by romanian prime-minister victor ponta .
