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daniel dăianu

daniel dăianu -lrb- born 30 august 1952 in bucharest -rrb- is a romanian economist , professor and politician .
he was a member of the european parliament between 2009 , where he represented the national liberal party -lrb- romania -rrb- .
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 -lrb- a variant of ah-1 cobra -rrb- , 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 -lrb- eaces -rrb- , 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 -lrb- snspa -rrb- in bucharest .
during different periods , he held research positions at the russian research center -lrb- harvard university -rrb- , the woodrow wilson center -lrb- washington , d.c. -rrb- , the nato defense college -lrb- rome -rrb- , the international monetary fund -lrb- imf -rrb- , and the organization for european cooperation in europe -lrb- oecd -rrb- .
between 1999 - 2004 , he was a professor at the academy of economic studies -lrb- ase -rrb- 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 -lrb- die -rrb- , 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 -lrb- rfe -rrb- at the time .
in september 2007 , the national council for analyzing the state security department files -lrb- cnsas -rrb- decided that daniel dăianu had worked for the external intelligence unit solely on economic issues .
between 1979 and 1990 , he was a researcher at the economic socialist institute .
daniel dăianu was elected a corresponding member of the romanian academy since 2001 .
he was upgraded to titular member in 2013 .
he has written several books and his columns have appeared in `` ziarul financiar '' , `` piaţa financiară '' , bursa , `` southeast european times '' `` european voice '' .
`` les echos '' , europe 's world , world commerce review .
in october 2008 , dăianu took position against european banks that receive state aids to get out of the crisis , yet damage emerging european economies through speculation against national currencies .
he was co-rapporteur of the report `` lamfalussy follow-up : future structure of supervision '' , for the european parliament .
on may 22 , 2008 , daniel dăianu , together with three former presidents of the european commission , nine former prime ministers of eu member states and six former finance / economy ministers , co-signed an article with title `` financial markets can not govern us '' in `` le monde '' , in which they anticipated the extent of the economic crisis and talked about its causes .
during the presidential elections of 2009 , he was touted as one of possible prime ministers .
daniel dăianu was invited to be a fellow of the warsaw based center for social and economic research -lrb- case -rrb- , in 2010 .
