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Mircea Geoană

Founding President
Deputy Secretary General of NATO

Mircea Geoana is the Deputy Secretary General of NATO beginning with October 17, 2019. He is a proeminent public figure in Romania, with a distinguished domestic and international career. Mircea Geoana ran for the Presidency of Romania in 2009. In an unprecedented narrow and contested election, he received 49.6% of the casted ballot. He served […]

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Alexandra Gătej

Acting President & Vice-president
CEO, Maldon & Wat

Alexandra Gătej received a bachelor’s degree in Economics at the Wharton University, USA. She also has a degree in cybernetics from the Cybernetics Department of the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. In 2011 Mrs. Alexandra Gătej was elected President of AmCham for two terms by a representative part of the business environment in Romania, acknowledging […]

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Florin Pogonaru

Vice-president
CEO/Chairman, Central European Financial Services

Florin Pogonaru is the coordinator of the “Central European Financial Services” Group for Romania and member of the boards of directors and investment committees for the Romanian Post Privatisation Fund. From 1997 he is a member of the Business Advisory Committee of the Southeast European Cooperation Initiative, and since 2002 holds the same position in […]

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Vasile Iuga

Treasurer
Entrepreneur

Vasile currently serves in a number of boards of international companies, in addition to being an investor in two telecom/cable tv businesses. Previously he was with PwC for 27 years, including 20 years as a Senior International Partner in charge with SEE and as a Board Member of PWC CEE. During his tenure at PwC, […]

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Daniel Badea

Member
Managing Partner, Clifford Chance Badea

Daniel Badea heads the Banking & Finance and Capital Markets practices of Clifford Chance Badea law firm and has more than 16 years of legal practice in an international legal environment, including in City of London. Daniel has focused primarily on finance law (banks, project finance, capital markets, restructurings, bonds issues), corporate law, as well […]

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Steven van Groningen

Member
President, Raiffeisen Bank

Steven Cornelis van Groningen is an expert of the Central and Eastern Europe banking market and over the past 10 years he has been on top management positions in subsidiaries of Western-European banks in Romania, Hungary and Russia. He managed the start up of ABN Amro subsidiary in Bucharest. Beginning with June 2001 he became […]

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Răsvan Radu

Member
CEO/Executive President, UniCredit Bank

He was born on 12 February 1966 and he graduated from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, the Economic Studies Academy Bucharest, the Romanian – American University Bucharest, the Economic International Relations Faculty and from special MBA programs at Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers – Paris, Bucharest and Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. […]

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Christina Verchere

Member
Chief Executive Officer & President of the Executive Board OMV Petrom

Christina Verchere holds a Master degree in Economics Science from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She started her career in 1993 and has spent over 20 years with an oil and gas supermajor, where she held numerous leadership positions in the UK, the US, Canada and Indonesia. Between 2012-2014, she has been the Regional President […]

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Sergiu Manea

Member
President, Banca Comerciala Romana

Sergiu Manea is, since October 2015, the President of Banca Comerciala Romana, Romania’s leading financial group, and the first Romanian CEO appointed by the majority shareholder, following privatization of the bank with Austrian based Erste Group in 2006. Until his appointment at the helm of BCR, Sergiu Manea was Executive Vice-president of Corporates & Markets […]

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