Corina Crețu

Corina Crețu
European Commissioner for Regional Policy
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 November 2014
President Jean-Claude Juncker
Preceded by Johannes Hahn
Personal details
Born 24 June 1967
Bucharest, Romania
Political party Social Democratic Party
Alma mater Bucharest University of
Economic Studies
Romanian Senate

Corina Creţu (born June 24, 1967 in Bucharest[1]) is a Romanian politician,[2] and European Commissioner for Regional Policy-designate.[3][4][5][6][7][8] Creţu is a member of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD),[1] a Member of the European Parliament (sitting with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats).[9] Since June 2014, she has served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament.[3][9]

Political career

Creţu studied at the Academy of Economic Studies, Faculty of Cybernetics, graduating in 1989.[9] She spent a year working as an economist at a factory in Blaj until 1990.[9][10] She then worked as a journalist and political comentator between 1990 and 1992 for newspapers Azi, Curierul Naţional, and Cronica Română[9] before joining the Spokesperson's office of the Cabinet of President Ion Iliescu (1992-1996).[1][9]

In 1996, she became a member of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PDSR).

Between 2000 and 2004, Creţu was Presidential Advisor, Presidential Spokesperson[1][4][9] and Head of the Public Communication Department[1] during Ion Iliescu's second mandate as Romanian president.

In 2000 she was elected Deputy in Romania's Parliament and, in 2004, to the Romanian Senate.[1] As a Senator, she sat on the Foreign Policy Committee, and was a full member of the Romanian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE. In January 2005, at the invitation of the Jordanian Government, she conducted a training seminar at Amman for appointees to spokesperson positions in Iraq. Creţu was also an OSCE observer to the parliamentary election of March 2005 in Moldova and to the general election of 2006 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[11]

In 2005, Creţu was appointed a member of the Romanian parliamentary delegation to the European Parliament.[9] She was elected Member of the European Parliament (sitting with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats)[9] on January 1, 2007[1] following the accession of Romania to the European Union, being re-elected as MEP in 2009[1] and 2014.[9]

In 2013, she was elected Vice-President of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD).[1][12]

Personal life

Her father, Traian Creţu (1937–1995), was Professor of Physics at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.[13]

In 2012, Creţu married Ovidiu Rogoz, a Romanian businessman, at the New Church of St Spyridon in Bucharest.[9][14][15]

Honours

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Agerpres (29 May 2014). "2014EP BIOGRAPHY MEP Corina Cretu". Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Corina Cretu". Huffington Post. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Corina Cretu". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 EurActiv.com (2 October 2014). "EPP holds Damocles' sword over Creţu". Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Mihai, Cătălina (10 September 2014). "Corina Creţu, desemnată comisar european pentru Politică Regională. Componenţa completă a viitoarei Comisii Europene". Mediafax. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  6. ↑ Tudor, Iulian (3 October 2014). "Corina Creţu, printre premianţii Comisiei Europene". RomaniaTV. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "Commission: Corina Cretu n’a pas vraiment crevé l’écran (in French)". Lalibre.be. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  8. ↑ "Corina Cretu gets positive opinion after EP hearing". The Diplomat Bucharest. 2 October 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 9.10 Dadacul, Liviu (10 September 2014). "BIOGRAFIE: Cine este Corina Creţu, noul comisar european pentru Politică Regională". Mediafax. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  10. ↑ "EC president Junker prefers Corina Cretu for Regional Policy European Commissioner mandate". Romania-Insider. 2 September 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  11. ↑ "Corina Creţu, observator OSCE la alegerile din Bosnia/Herţegovina (in Romanian)". Amos News. 29 September 2006. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  12. ↑ "Victor Ponta, la TVR, după reconfirmarea în funcţia de preşedinte al PSD: Greul acum începe (in Romanian)". Stirile TVR. 20 April 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  13. ↑ Creţu, Corina (10 July 2008). "Tata". http://corinacretu.wordpress.com''. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  14. ↑ "Corina Creţu s-a căsătorit cu omul de afaceri Ovidiu Rogoz (in Romanian)". DCnews. 10 November 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
  15. ↑ "Corina Cretu s-a cununat religios. Iliescu: Avea nevoie sa se casatoreasca, era putin cam stinghera". StirileProTV.ro. 11 November 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2014.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Dacian Cioloş		 Romanian European Commissioner
2014–present 		Incumbent
Preceded by
Johannes Hahn		 European Commissioner for Regional Policy
2014–present