Daniel Dăianu
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Daniel Dăianu (born 30 August 1952, Bucharest) is a Romanian economist, professor and politician. He was the Finance Minister of Romania in 1998 and is an associate member of the Romanian Academy since 2001.
In 1975, he obtained a Master in Economics from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, and in 1988, he obtained 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. He is a professor of economics at the School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest. He was a visiting professor at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (1999-2002), the University of Bologna (2000-2002), and the University of California, Berkeley (1999).
Between 1992 and 1997, Dăianu was the Chief Economist of the National Bank of Romania. Between 5 December 1997 and 23 September 1998, he was Finance Minister 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. Since August 2005, Dăianu is the President of the Supervision Board of Banca Comercială Română, a position previously held by Sebastian Vlădescu and Florin Georgescu, among others.
Dăianu has published several books and his columns appear regularly in Jurnalul Naţional, Ziarul Financiar, Piaţa Financiară and Southeast European Times.
On 4 December 1997, then-Prime Minister of Romania Victor Ciorbea confirmed that Dăianu had worked for the Securitate's foreign intelligence department during the Communist period[1], but had nothing to do with the "political arm" of the communist secret police since he worked for its foreign intelligence department, an assertion that Dăianu himself had admitted was true in 1990.[1]
[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
- Frontiere etice ale capitalismului, translated into Romanian by Dorin Nistor, Alina Pelea, Marius Gulei (Polirom, 2006) ISBN 973-46-0085-0
