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Roberta Alma ANASTASE
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Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies
On December 19th, 2008, Roberta Anastase was elected Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.
She is the first woman to hold the office in the history of Romania. Prior to being elected,
Ms. Anastase was a Member of Parliament, representing her home county of Prahova in the
Chamber of Deputies. From 2005 to 2008, she was an observer, and then a Member of the
European Parliament, affiliated with the European People’s Party – European Democrats Group.
In November of 2008, under a new voting system, she was reelected as the first representative of
the 11th electoral district of Prahova (Ploiesti-Vest) to the Chamber of Deputies.
Ms. Anastase was born in Ploieşti on March 27th, 1976. A sociologist by training, she pursued
post-graduate studies in Political Science and European Studies.
Throughout her time as an MP and an MEP, Ms. Anastase has supported justice reform, women’s rights and equal
opportunities. She was also European Parliament Rapporteur for the Black Sea Synergy and maintains a keen interest in
foreign and regional affairs.
Bogdan Lucian AURESCU
A career diplomat, Bogdan Aurescu was appointed Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs in the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs on 4 February 2009. Since August 2010, he is Secretary of State for European Affairs;
he also coordinates the Security Policies Directorate.
He joined the Ministry in 1996, starting his activity within the Legal and Treaties Directorate, as desk officer.
Between 1998 and 2003 he was successively counsellor within the Minister’s Cabinet, deputy director of the
Legal and Treaties Directorate, director of the Minister’s Cabinet, director of the Legal and Treaties/International
Law and Treaties Directorate, director general of the General Department for Legal Affairs.
Between 2003 and 2004 he was Under-Secretary of State within the Ministry – Government Agent for
the European Court of Human Rights, and between 2004 and 2005 Secretary of State for European Affairs.
Since September 2004, Bogdan Aurescu was the Romanian Agent before the International Court of
Justice, coordinating – all along the procedures – the activity of the team which represented Romania in
the case against Ukraine before the International Court of Justice on Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea, finalized on 3 February
2009. Currently, he has the diplomatic rank of minister-counsellor.
He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague), substitute member of the European Commission for Democracy
through Law (Venice Commission) of the Council of Europe, alternate representative of Romania to the Danube Commission and
arbitrator designated by Romania according to article 2 of Annex VII to the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea. He is also president
of the International Law Section of the Association of International Law and International Relations of the Romanian Branch of the
International Law Association (London), editor-in-chief of the Romanian Journal of International Law and member of the Editorial
Board of the „Judicial Courier”.
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