Ioana Petrescu
Ioana Maria Petrescu | |
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| Minister of Finance | |
| President | Traian Băsescu |
| Prime Minister | Victor Ponta Third Ponta Cabinet |
| Preceded by | Daniel Chițoiu |
| Succeeded by | Darius Vâlcov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 1, 1980 Bucharest, Romania |
| Residence(s) | Cambridge, MA |
| Alma mater | Wellesley College Harvard University |
| Occupation | scholar and activist |
| Profession | economist |
| Website | www.ioanapetrescu.ro |
Ioana Maria Petrescu (born July 1, 1980) is a Romanian economist who served as the country's Finance Minister.[1] She is a public policy scholar at Harvard Kennedy School[2] and runs a Romanian NGO "Pur si Simplu Verde" [3] that supports local governments in their efforts to transition to a greener economy.[4]
Biography
The daughter of two engineers, she was brought up by her grandparents in Cornu until she went to school in Bucharest.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]
Finance Minister of Romania
After serving as economic adviser to the Prime Minister,[8] in 2014 she has been named Romania's first female Finance Minister.[9] While a minister, she pursued policies to cut tax evasion and tax avoidance, promote financial transparency, improve tax compliance, lower the tax burden for businesses and keep fiscal discipline. [10]
Notes
- ^ (in Romanian) Adina Vlad, "Cine este Ioana Petrescu", Adevărul, March 3, 2014; accessed March 12, 2014
- ^ "Former Romanian finance minister returns to US as visiting fellow at Harvard". 4 July 2019.
- ^ "Ioana Petrescu lansează "Pur şi simplu verde". La eveniment au vorbit reprezentanţi ai ONU şi din mediul academic din SUA şi Marea Britanie".
- ^ "Cele 8 obiective de tranziție energetică ale Delivery Unit Hunedoara au fost aprobate în ședința Consiliului Județean Hunedoara". 30 September 2022.
- ^ "Andreea Esca despre Ioana Petrescu: Ai putea spune orice, dar nu ca e ministru de Finante" (in Romanian). Retrieved July 16, 2014.
- ^ "Ioana Petrescu Assistant Professor" (in Romanian). Retrieved July 16, 2014.
- ^ "Cine este Ioana Petrescu, personajul principal al ultimelor 24 de ore, cum l-a întâlnit pe Victor Ponta şi cum a ajuns ministrul Finanţelor" (in Romanian). Ziarul financiardate=July 15, 2014. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
- ^ "Surpriză de proporţii în cabinetul Ponta. Premierul o propune pe Ioana Petrescu, 34 de ani, la ministerul Finanţelor. Vedeţi noua stea a Finanţelor din România".
- ^ "Ioana Petrescu, prima femeie ministru de Finanţe, la Sinteza Zilei".
- ^ "Ioana Petrescu".
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